Relationship between post-fire regeneration and leaf economics spectrum in Mediterranean woody species

Functional Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-110

  Saura Mas, S ^a   Shipley, B ^b   Lloret, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Causality; Fire; Latent variable; Leaf; Mediterranean; Post fire; Regeneration; Trait; Woody species

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT RESISTANCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FIRE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 58349092304     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01474.x     Document Type: Article

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