Dynamics of ground vegetation after surface fires in hemiboreal Pinus sylvestris forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 250, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 47-55

  Marozas, Vitas ^a   Racinskas, Jonas ^a   Bartkevicius, Edmundas ^a  

^a VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Herbs; Lithuania; Mosses; Seedlings; Succession

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FIRES; FORESTRY;

DISTURBANCE; MOSSES; STIMULATED REGENERATION;

VEGETATION;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HERB; MOSS; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; HERBS; PLANTS; SEEDLINGS;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS CAPILLARIS; BRYOPHYTA; CALAMAGROSTIS EPIGEIOS; CHAMERION ANGUSTIFOLIUM; DICRANUM POLYSETUM; DICRANUM SCOPARIUM; FESTUCA OVINA; HYLOCOMIUM SPLENDENS; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS; MELAMPYRUM PRATENSE; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLEUROZIUM SCHREBERI; POLYTRICHUM JUNIPERINUM; POLYTRICHUM PILIFERUM; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM VITIS-IDAEA;

EID: 34548421904     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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