Species and vegetation responses to prescribed fire in a long-unburned, endemic-rich Lake Wales Ridge scrub

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 265-282

  Weekley, Carl W ^a   Menges, Eric S ^a  

^a ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Endemic plants; Fire responses; Florida scrub; Life history strategies; Oak scrub; Resprouting; Seedling recruitment

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RECRUITMENT; RESPROUTING; SCRUB; SURVIVAL;

FLORIDA; LAKE WALES RIDGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

POLYGONELLA; POLYGONELLA MYRIOPHYLLA; QUERCUS;

EID: 0842307387     PISSN: 10955674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3557545     Document Type: Article

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