Post-disturbance plant community dynamics following a rare natural-origin fire in a Tsuga canadensis forest

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Murray, Bryan D ^a   Holmes, Stacie A ^b   Webster, Christopher R ^a   Witt, Jill C ^c  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs   (United States)

^c Little River Band of Ottawa Indians   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACKEN FERN; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CONIUM; DROUGHT STRESS; EPILOBIUM; FIRE; FOREST; FOREST FIRE; FORESTRY; GRASS; GROWING SEASON; LIGHTNING; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RUBUS; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS; UNITED STATES; VACCINIUM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

DROUGHTS; FIRES; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREES; TSUGA; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84865165296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043867     Document Type: Article

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