Large-scale assessment of regeneration and diversity in Mediterranean planted pine forests along ecological gradients

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1092-1106

  Ruiz Benito, Paloma ^a,b   Gómez Aparicio, Lorena ^a,c   Zavala, Miguel A ^a,b  

^a Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continental Spain; Management; Naturalization; Plantation; Recruitment limitation; Woody species richness

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; NATURALIZATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

SPAIN;

PINUS HALEPENSIS; PINUS MUGO; PINUS NIGRA; PINUS PINASTER; PINUS PINEA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS;

EID: 84867405538     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00901.x     Document Type: Article

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