Quercus and Pinus cover are determined by landscape structure and dynamics in peri-urban Mediterranean forest patches

Plant Ecology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-119

  Guirado, Maria ^a   Pino, Joan ^a,b   Rodà, Ferran ^a   Basnou, Corina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbances; Forest fragmentation; Historical dynamics; Patch structure; Pinus forests; Quercus forests

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PATCH DYNAMICS; PERIURBAN AREA; POPULATION DENSITY; SUCCESSION;

QUERCUS;

EID: 36448989700     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9278-9     Document Type: Article

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