The contribution of legumes to post-fire regeneration of quercus suber and pinus halepensis forests in northeastern Algeria

Revue d'Ecologie (La Terre et la Vie)

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-42

  Bekdouche, Farid ^a   Sahnoune, Mohamed ^a   Krouchi, Fazia ^b   Achour, Samira ^a   Guemati, Nora ^a   Derridj, Arezki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEJAIA   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MOULOUD MAMMERI   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LEGUME; OVERGRAZING; PHYTOMASS; REGENERATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALGERIA;

PINUS HALEPENSIS; QUERCUS SUBER;

EID: 79952918460     PISSN: 02497395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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