Simulating regeneration and vegetation dynamics in Mediterranean coniferous forests

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1494-1504

  Fyllas, Nikolaos M ^a   Politi, Patrizia I ^b   Galanidis, Alexandros ^c   Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis G ^c   Arianoutsou, Margarita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abies cephalonica; Climate change; Cold stratification; Forest dynamics; Forest modelling; Gap dynamics; Mediterranean conifers; Pinus brutia; Pinus nigra; Regeneration dynamics; Seed germination

Indexed keywords

COLD STRATIFICATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MODELLING; GAP DYNAMICS; PINUS BRUTIA; PINUS NIGRA; REGENERATION DYNAMICS; SEED GERMINATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; SEED; VEGETATION;

REFORESTATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GAP DYNAMICS; GERMINATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; REGENERATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; TREE RING;

ABIES CEPHALONICA; PINUS BRUTIA; PINUS NIGRA; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; SEEDS; SOFTWOODS;

CEPHALONIA [IONIAN ISLANDS]; GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS; LESBOS; NORTHERN AEGEAN;

ABIES; ABIES CEPHALONICA; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS BRUTIA; PINUS NIGRA;

EID: 77952104373     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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