Landscape patterns of woody plant response to crown fire: Disturbance and productivity influence sprouting ability

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 544-555

  Clarke, Peter J ^a   Knox, Kirsten J E ^a   Wills, Karen E ^a   Campbell, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competition; Disturbance; Fire ecology; Fire regime; Obligate seeding; Reseeding; Resprouting; Sclerophyll forest; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

FIRE; REGENERATION; RESPROUTING; SEED PRODUCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ENGLAND TABLELANDS; NEW SOUTH WALES; WORLD;

EID: 20444378189     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.00971.x     Document Type: Article

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