Fire, fuel composition and resilience threshold in subalpine ecosystem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Blarquez, Olivier ^a,b   Carcaillet, Christopher ^a,b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUEL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIRE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; ALTITUDE; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FIRE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TREE;

BETULA SP.; LARIX DECIDUA; PINUS CEMBRA;

ALTITUDE; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FIRES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 77957958697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012480     Document Type: Article

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