Managing heterogeneity: The importance of grazing and environmental variation on post-fire succession in heathlands

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 139-149

  Vandvik, Vigdis ^a   Heegaard, Einar ^a   Måren, Inger Elisabeth ^a   Aarrestad, Per Arild ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Calluna vulgaris; Conservation management; Disturbance regimes; Diversity; Generalized linear models; Interactive effects; Principal response curves; Spatial variation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GRAZING; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HEATHLAND; SUCCESSION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 14844313770     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.00982.x     Document Type: Article

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