Fire-mediated interactions between shrubs in a South American temperate savannah

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1383-1395

  Biganzoli, Fernando ^a   Wiegand, Thorsten ^b   Batista, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SAVANNA; SHRUB; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

BACCHARIS; BACCHARIS DRACUNCULIFOLIA; EUPATORIUM; EUPATORIUM BUNIIFOLIUM;

EID: 69549111174     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17349.x     Document Type: Article

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