Vegetation management for promoting ecosystem resilience in fire-prone mediterranean shrublands

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 414-421

  Valdecantos, A ^a,b   Baeza, M J ^a,c   Vallejo, V R ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clearing; Fuel management; Mulching; Pistacia lentiscus; Quercus ilex; Reforestation; Rhamnus alaternus; Seedlings

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; MULCHING; REFORESTATION; REINTRODUCTION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ILEX; PISTACIA LENTISCUS; QUERCUS ILEX; RHAMNUS; RHAMNUS ALATERNUS;

EID: 65449163741     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00401.x     Document Type: Article

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