Factors affecting plant diversity during post-fire recovery and succession of mediterranean-climate shrublands in California, USA

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 525-537

  Keeley, Jon E ^a,b   Fotheringham, C J ^b   Baer Keeley, Melanie ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Core satellite; Dispersal; Diversity; Growth form; Heterogeneity; Metapopulations; Residual species; Resource availability

Indexed keywords

FIRE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUBLAND; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28144439499     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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