Mediterranean vegetation dynamics: Modelling problems and functional types

Plant Ecology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-39

  Pausas, Juli G ^a  

^a FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fire ecology; Gap models; Mediterranean; Resprouting

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GAP DYNAMICS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0033030540     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009752403216     Document Type: Article

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