Interactive influences of fire intensity and vertical distribution of seed banks on post-fire recolonization of a tall-tussock grassland in Argentina

Austral Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 608-622

  Laterra, Pedro ^a   Ortega, Elizabeth Z ^a,b   Ochoa, María Del Carmen ^a,c   Vignolio, Osvaldo R ^a   Fernández, Osvaldo N ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Colonization; Fire regime; Flooding Pampa; Seed bank; Seedling recruitment; Tussock grassland

Indexed keywords

FOREST FIRE; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; PROPAGULE; RECOLONIZATION; SEED BANK; SEED DORMANCY; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; TUSSOCK GRASSLAND; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WILDFIRE;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CARDUUS; CARDUUS ACANTHOIDES; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM VULGARE; LOTUS GLABER;

EID: 33746255848     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01593.x     Document Type: Article

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