Habitat insularity and fire response traits: Evidence from a sclerophyll archipelago

Oecologia

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 582-591

  Clarke, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Convergence; Fire shadows; Resprouting; Rocky outcrops; Sclerophyll shrubs

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FIRE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; OUTCROP; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGENERATION; RESPROUTING;

EID: 0036940964     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0962-0     Document Type: Article

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