Post-fire effects and short-term regeneration dynamics following highseverity crown fires in a Mediterranean forest

IForest

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 93-100

  Marzano, Raffaella ^a   Lingua, Emanuele ^b   Garbarino, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fire severity; Pinus pinaster; Regeneration strategies; Snag dynamics; Structural diversity

Indexed keywords

PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 84863898207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor0612-005     Document Type: Article

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