Response of pine natural regeneration to small-scale spatial variation in a managed Mediterranean mountain forest

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 488-503

  Barbeito, Ignacio ^a   Fortin, Marie Josée ^b   Montes, Fernando ^c   Cañellas, Isabel ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental heterogeneity; Null model; Pinus sylvestris; Redundancy analysis; Regeneration cutting; Spatial pattern; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 77949452873     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2009.01043.x     Document Type: Article

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