Does post-fire abiotic habitat filtering create divergent plant communities in black spruce forests of eastern Canada?

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 465-477

  Siegwart Collier, Laura C ^a,b   Mallik, Azim U ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Functional traits; Habitat filter; Residual organic matter

Indexed keywords

ALLELOPATHY; BIOTIC FACTOR; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DICOTYLEDON; DIVERGENCE; FOREST FIRE; ORGANIC MATTER; REGENERATION; SAVANNA; STAND DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SPRUCE; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; PICEA; PLANTS; TREES;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

KALMIA; KALMIA ANGUSTIFOLIA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 77956648768     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1642-0     Document Type: Article

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