Post-fire salvage logging alters a key plant-animal interaction for forest regeneration

Ecosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Castro, J ^a   Puerta pinero C ^b   Leverkus, A B ^a   Moreno Rueda, G ^a   Sanchez Miranda A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Garrulus glandarius; Jay oak interaction; Oak colonization; Quercus ilex; Resilience; Salvage harvesting; Seed dispersal; Sierra Nevada National Park; Succession

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CORVIDAE; GARRULUS GLANDARIUS; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 84874005844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES12-00089.1     Document Type: Article

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