Responses of Mediterranean Plant Species to different fire frequencies in Garraf Natural Park (Catalonia, Spain): Field observations and modelling predictions

Plant Ecology

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 223-235

  Lloret, Francisco ^a   Pausas, Juli G ^b   Vilà, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

Ampelodesmos mauritanica; Fire recurrence; Model; Resprouting; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FIRE; PLANT COMMUNITY;

SPAIN;

AMPELODESMOS; AMPELODESMOS MAURITANICA; CISTUS SALVIIFOLIUS; ERICA; PINUS HALEPENSIS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS COCCIFERA; ROSMARINUS; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS;

EID: 0038143220     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023911031155     Document Type: Article

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