Comparing landscape scale vegetation dynamics following recent disturbance in climatically similar sites in California and the Mediterranean basin

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 573-590

  Carmel, Yohay ^a   Flather, Curtis H ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Convergent evolution; Disturbance history; Israel; Landscape dynamics; Mediterranean type ecosystems; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVERGENCE; DISTURBANCE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA; CALIFORNIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; MOUNT MERON; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN DISTRICT; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 7744237772     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LAND.0000042874.94085.28     Document Type: Article

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