Does pyrogenicity protect burning plants?

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3481-3486

  Gagnon, Paul R ^a   Passmore, Heather A ^b   Platt, William J ^b   Myers, Jonathan A ^b   Paine, C E Timothy ^c   Harms, Kyle E ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Adaptations; Ecosystem engineering; Evolution; Fire ecology; Heat; Mutch hypothesis; Niche construction; Plant flammability; Pyrogenicity as protection; Resprouting; Serotiny

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BURNING; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; HEAT BALANCE; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE HISTORY; NATURAL SELECTION; NICHE; PLANT; PROPAGULE; REGENERATION; RESPROUTING; SEROTINY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SURVIVAL; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; HEAT; METABOLISM; PLANT; REPRODUCTION; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; HOT TEMPERATURE; PLANTS; REPRODUCTION; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78650374908     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0291.1     Document Type: Article

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