Fire as a threatening factor for endemic plants of the Canary Islands

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2621-2632

  Garzón Machado, Víctor ^a   del Arco Aguilar, Marcelino J ^a   González, Francisco Valdés ^a   Pérez de Paz, Pedro L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canary Islands; Fire; Pine forest understory; Seed treatments; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GERMINATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DORMANCY; SEED TREATMENT; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNDERSTORY; VULNERABILITY; WILDFIRE;

CANARY ISLANDS; SPAIN;

EID: 84865405613     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0321-3     Document Type: Article

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