Adapting to global environmental change in Patagonia: What role for disturbance ecology?

Austral Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 891-903

  Veblen, Thomas T ^a   Holz, Andrés ^a   Paritsis, Juan ^a   Raffaele, Estela ^b   Kitzberger, Thomas ^b   Blackhall, Melisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Climate change; Disturbance; Fire ecology; Herbivore; Tree plantation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; HERBIVORY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; POLICY APPROACH; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WILDFIRE;

PATAGONIA;

EID: 80155135055     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2010.02236.x     Document Type: Article

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