Salvage Logging Versus the Use of Burnt Wood as a Nurse Object to Promote Post-Fire Tree Seedling Establishment

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 537-544

  Castro, Jorge ^a   Allen, Craig D ^b   Molina Morales, Mercedes ^a   Marañón Jiménez, Sara ^a   Sánchez Miranda, Ángela ^a   Zamora, Regino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Nurse structures; Pinus pinaster regeneration; Post fire restoration; Salvage harvesting

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; HABITAT RESTORATION; MICROCLIMATE; NURSE PLANT; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL; TREE;

PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 79952042473     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00619.x     Document Type: Article

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