Patterns of land-use abandonment control tree-recruitment and forest dynamics in mediterranean mountains

Ecosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 936-948

  Chauchard, Sandrine ^a,b   Carcaillet, Christopher ^a   Guibal, Frédéric ^b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Age structure; Dendroecology; Forest ecosystem; Historical archives; Land use change; Pinus sylvestris

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROECOLOGY; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRAZING PRESSURE; LAND USE CHANGE; MONTANE FOREST; NINETEENTH CENTURY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 37749054497     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9065-4     Document Type: Article

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