The heat is on: Frequent high intensity fire in bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) drives mortality of the sprouting tree Protea caffra in temperate grasslands

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2013-2022

  Adie, Hylton ^a   Richert, Stephen ^b   Kirkman, Kevin P ^a   Lawes, Michael J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b EZEMVELO KZN WILDLIFE   (South Africa)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire behaviour; Invasive plant; Resprouter; Topkill; Tree grass interaction

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; FERN; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; HEAT BALANCE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MATRIX; MONTANE FOREST; MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGENERATION; RESPROUTING; SHRUB; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

PROTEA CAFFRA; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM;

EID: 83055188300     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9945-8     Document Type: Article

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