The interactive effects of fire and diversity on short-term responses of ecosystem processes in experimental Mediterranean grasslands

Environmental Management

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 826-839

  Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis G ^a   Siamantziouras, Akis Stavros D ^a   Galanidis, Alexandros ^a   Mprezetou, Irene ^a   Troumbis, Andreas Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Disturbance; Ecosystem functioning; Field experiment; Plant production; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; SOILS; STABILITY;

CANOPY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; FIRE DISTURBANCE; INTERACTIVE EFFECTS; PLANT PRODUCTION;

FIRES;

BIOMASS; CANOPY; DECOMPOSITION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GRASSLAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FIRE; GRASSLAND; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; VEGETATION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 33646048045     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-0179-6     Document Type: Article

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