Fire drives phylogenetic clustering in Mediterranean Basin woody plant communities

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1316-1323

  Verdu M ^a   Pausas, J G ^b,c  

^a CDIS UV Generalitat Valenciana)   (Spain)

^b FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evolutionary filtering; Fire regime; Phylogenetic structure; Plant traits; Post fire recruitment; Seeders

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; FIRE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; WOODY PLANT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 35448990551     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01300.x     Document Type: Article

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