Soil seed banks and plant community assembly following disturbance by fire and logging in interior Douglas-fir forests of south-central British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Botany

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1548-1560

  Stark, Kaeli E ^a   Arsenault, André ^b   Bradfield, Gary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fire; Forest soil seed bank; Logging; Multi response permutation procedures; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FIRES; SEED; STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION;

FOREST SOIL; NONMETRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; SOIL SEED BANKS;

BIODIVERSITY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; FOREST SOIL; LOGGING (TIMBER); PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED BANK; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

PLANTS; SEEDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; KAMLOOPS; NORTH AMERICA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 33846910301     PISSN: 00084026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B06-112     Document Type: Article

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