Vascular plants of a successional alvar burn 100 days after a severe fire and their mechanisms of re-establishment

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 214-222

  Catling, Paul M ^a   Sinclair, Adrianne ^a   Cuddy, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alvar; Biomass removal; Canada; Fire; Flora; Great Lakes; Management; Ontario; Prescribed burn; Rare species; Species diversity; Succession

Indexed keywords

FIRE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VASCULAR PLANT; WOODLAND;

CANADA;

ABIES BALSAMEA; ASTRAGALUS NEGLECTUS; CALYSTEGIA SPITHAMAEA; CAREX RICHARDSONII; CORYDALIS AUREA; DRACOCEPHALUM PARVIFLORUM; GERANIUM BICKNELLII; MUHLENBERGIA GLOMERATA; PANICUM FLEXILE; PANICUM PHILADELPHICUM; PETASITES FRIGIDUS; PICEA GLAUCA; PINUS STROBUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SCUTELLARIA PARVULA; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS; VIOLA NEPHROPHYLLA;

EID: 0035700934     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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