On incorporating fire into our thinking about natural ecosystems: A response to Saha and Howe

American Naturalist

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 664-670

  Keeley, J E ^a   Bond, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bamboo; Critique; Delayed reproduction; Fuels; India; Mass flowering; Monocarpic; Seedling recruitment; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035662350     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323594     Document Type: Note

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