Fire severity and seedling establishment in Pinus halepensis woodlands, eastern Iberian Peninsula

Plant Ecology

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 205-213

  Pausas, J G ^a   Ouadah, N ^a   Ferran, A ^a   Gimeno, T ^a   Vallejo, R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Aleppo pine; Forest fires; Mediterranean type ecosystem; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FIRE; GROWTH; HETEROGENEITY; REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

SPAIN;

BRACHYPODIUM; BRACHYPODIUM RETUSUM; FRAXINUS; PINUS HALEPENSIS; POACEAE;

EID: 0242658478     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026019528443     Document Type: Article

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