Resilience assessment on Phillyrea angustifolia L. maquis undergone to experimental fire through a big-leaf modelling approach

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 203, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 387-394

  Vitale, Marcello ^a   Capogna, Francesca ^a   Manes, Fausto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big leaf approach; Deterministic model; Fire; Gas exchange; Leaf area index; Mediterranean vegetation; Phillyrea angustifolia

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRES; VEGETATION;

BIG-LEAF APPROACH; DETERMINISTIC MODEL; GAS EXCHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN VEGETATION; PHILLYREA ANGUSTIFOLIA;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DICOTYLEDON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GROWTH RATE; LEAF AREA INDEX; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; REGROWTH; STAND STRUCTURE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

PHILLYREA ANGUSTIFOLIA;

EID: 34047122589     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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