Invasion of Norway spruce diversifies the fire regime in boreal European forests

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 395-403

  Ohlson, Mikael ^a   Brown, Kendrick J ^b,h   Birks, H John B ^c,i   Grytnes, John Arvid ^c   Hörnberg, Greger ^d   Niklasson, Mats ^e   Seppä, Heikki ^f   Bradshaw, Richard H W ^g  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d The Institute for Subarctic Landscape Research   (Sweden)

^e Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^h LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Climate change; Forest history; Holocene; Palaeoecology and land use history; Picea abies; Species invasion; Spruce forest; Wildfire activity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BURNING; BOREAL FOREST; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; HOLOCENE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; WILDFIRE;

EUROPE;

PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 79951559924     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01780.x     Document Type: Article

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