Roles of land-use and climate change on the establishment and regeneration dynamics of Mediterranean semi-deciduous oak forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 274, Issue , 2012, Pages 143-150

  Kouba, Yacine ^a   Camarero, J Julio ^b   Alados, Concepción L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forest dynamics; Land use changes; Pre Pyrenees; Quercus faginea; Tree recruitment

Indexed keywords

FOREST DYNAMICS; LAND-USE CHANGE; PRE-PYRENEES; QUERCUS; TREE RECRUITMENT;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS;

REFORESTATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; LAND USE CHANGE; LIVESTOCK; LONG-TERM CHANGE; POPULATION SIZE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CLIMATES; HARDWOODS; LAND USE; QUERCUS; REFORESTATION; STATISTICS; TREES;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PYRENEES;

QUERCUS FAGINEA;

EID: 84858976057     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.02.033     Document Type: Article

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