Seed banks of an Arizona Pinus ponderosa landscape: Responses to environmental gradients and fire cues

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 552-567

  Abella, Scott R ^a   Springer, Judith D ^b   Covington, W Wallace ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FIRE PROTECTION; GREENHOUSES; SEED;

LIQUID SMOKE; SEED-BANK COMPOSITION;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SEEDLING EMERGENCE;

ECOSYSTEMS; PINUS PONDEROSA; SEEDS;

CAREX GEOPHILA; ERIGERON; ERIGERON DIVERGENS; GNAPHALIUM; GNAPHALIUM EXILIFOLIUM; MUHLENBERGIA MONTANA; PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 34547869288     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-255     Document Type: Article

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