Functional diversity of herbaceous species under different fire frequencies in Brazilian savannas

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 205, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 674-681

  Loiola, Priscilla de Paula ^a   Cianciaruso, Marcus Vinicius ^b   Silva, Igor Aurélio ^a   Batalha, Marco Antônio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b University of Goias   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerrado; Fire ecology; Functional traits; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Neutral theory; Rarity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CERRADO; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FLORISTICS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HERB; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; NICHE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; RARE SPECIES; RARITY; SAVANNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 79957837536     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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