Prescribed burning of northern heathlands: Calluna vulgaris germination cues and seed-bank dynamics

Plant Ecology

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 245-256

  Måren, Inger E ^a   Janovský, Zdeněk ^b   Spindelböck, Joachim P ^a   Daws, Matthew I ^c   Kaland, Peter E ^a   Vandvik, Vigdis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Germination cues; Palaeoecology; Plant derived smoke; Secondary succession

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; DICOTYLEDON; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FARMING SYSTEM; FIRE HISTORY; GERMINATION; GRAZING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HEATHLAND; KEYSTONE SPECIES; PALEOECOLOGY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEED BANK; SMOKE;

EUROPE;

CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 77951975938     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9669-1     Document Type: Article

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