Vascular plant diversity in burned and unburned alvar woodland: More evidence of the importance of disturbance to biodiversity and conservation

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 240-245

  Catling, Paul ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alvar; Biodiversity; Brillouin's Index; Disturbance; Fire; Ontario; Rare species; Shannon Wiener function; Simpson's Index; Smith and Wilson evenness; Succession; Vascular plant

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; DIVERSITY INDEX; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; HETEROGENEITY; RARE SPECIES; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION COVER; WOODLAND;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

CONIFEROPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79951637222     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v123i3.971     Document Type: Article

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