Are pine plantations valid tools for restoring Mediterranean forests? An assessment along abiotic and biotic gradients

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2124-2141

  Gómez Aparicio, Lorena ^a   Zavala, Miguel A ^b   Bonet, Francisco J ^c,d   Zamora, Regino ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^b INIA   (Spain)

^c Centro Andaluz de Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Andalusia; Competition; Environmental gradients; Facilitation; Management strategy; Mediterranean forests; Pine plantations; Regeneration; Seed dispersal; Sierra Nevada National Park; Southeast Spain; Species diversity; Stand density

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION; THINNING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PINUS; SPAIN; TREES;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SIERRA NEVADA NATIONAL PARK; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 71549152843     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1656.1     Document Type: Article

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