A field experiment on climatic and herbivore impacts on post-fire tree regeneration in north-western Patagonia

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 771-779

  Tercero Bucardo, Norlan ^a   Kitzberger, Thomas ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^b   Raffaele, Estela ^a  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Austrocedrus; Climate change; Disturbances; Fire; Livestock; Nothofagus; Patagonia; Seedling survival; Tree regeneration

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIELD METHOD; GROWTH; HERBIVORE; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; WILDFIRE;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AUSTROCEDRUS; AUSTROCEDRUS CHILENSIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; NOTHOFAGUS; NOTHOFAGUS DOMBEYI; NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO;

EID: 34250639110     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01249.x     Document Type: Article

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