Germination patterns of soil seed banks in relation to fire in Portuguese littoral pine forest vegetation

Fire Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-15

  Santos, Lourdes ^a   Capelo, Jorge ^a   Tavares, Mário ^a  

^a L INIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Pinus pinaster; Post fire germination; Resprouters; Seeders; Soil seed bank; Understory vegetation management

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; GERMINATION; RESPROUTING; SEED BANK; SEEDING; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION; WILDFIRE;

LEIRIA [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL;

PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 78650425765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0603001     Document Type: Article

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