The effect of experimental prescribed fire on the establishment of Scots pine Pinus sylvestris seedlings on heather Calluna vulgaris moorland

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 212, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 199-213

  Hancock, Mark ^a   Egan, Siobhán ^a,b   Summers, Ron ^a   Cowie, Neil ^a   Amphlett, Andrew ^a   Rao, Shaila ^a,c   Hamilton, Alistair ^a,d  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calluna vulgaris; Forest regeneration; Pinus sylvestris; Prescribed fire; Seedling establishment

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; FIRE HAZARDS; SEED; SOILS;

GRAZING PRESSURE; MANAGEMENT TOOLS; MOORLAND; MOSSES;

FORESTRY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; PRESCRIBED BURNING;

COMBUSTION; FIRES; FOREST LITTER; INVERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SEEDING; SEEDLINGS; SOIL;

ABERNETHY FOREST; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

BRYOPHYTA; CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 20444421263     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.03.039     Document Type: Article

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