Does postfire management affect the recovery of Mediterranean communities? The case study of terrestrial gastropods

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 611-619

  Bros, Vicenç ^a   Moreno Rueda, Gregorio ^b   Santos, Xavier ^c  

^a Diputacio de Barcelona   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Mediterranean; Mollusca; Postfire management; Terrestrial snails; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

MEDITERRANEAN; MOLLUSCA; POST-FIRE; TERRESTRIAL SNAIL; WILDFIRES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEBRIS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MANAGEMENT; SOILS;

FIRES;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GASTROPOD; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; WOODY DEBRIS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 78651260009     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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