Community composition and regeneration of Lake Wales Ridge wiregrass flatwoods in relation to time-since-fire

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 125-138

  Maliakal, Satya K ^a,c   Menges, Eric S ^a   Denslow, J S ^b  

^a ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fire; Lake Wales Ridge; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Plant diversity; Postfire recovery; Seed bank; Wiregrass flatwoods

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FIRE HISTORY; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGENERATION;

FLORIDA; LAKE WALES RIDGE; UNITED STATES;

ARISTIDA BEYRICHIANA; PINUS ELLIOTTII; SABAL; SERENOA REPENS;

EID: 0034177618     PISSN: 10955674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3088690     Document Type: Article

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