Response of broadleaved evergreen Mediterranean forest vegetation to fire disturbance during the Holocene: Insights from the peri-Adriatic region

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 314-326

  Colombaroli, Daniele ^a,b   Tinner, Willy ^b,c   Van Leeuwen, Jacqueline ^b   Noti, Roland ^b   Vescovi, Elisa ^b   Vannière, Boris ^d   Magny, Michel ^d   Schmidt, Roland ^e   Bugmann, Harald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^e ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Compositional change; Cross correlations; Fire history; Mediterranean vegetation; Microscopic charcoal analysis; Pollen analysis; Quercus ilex; Redundancy analysis; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVOLUTION; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BALKANS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ILEX; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 58649103539     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01987.x     Document Type: Article

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