Effects of fuel reduction treatments on a gorse shrubland soil seed bank in the north of Spain: Comparing mastication and prescribed burning

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 79-87

  Fernández, Cristina ^a   Vega, José A ^a   Fonturbel, Teresa ^a  

^a Centro de Investigacion Forestal Lourizan   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mastication; Prescribed burning; Seed bank; Shrubland

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; FUEL REDUCTION TREATMENT; GREENHOUSE EXPERIMENTS; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SEED BANK; SHRUBLANDS; SIMILARITY INDICES; VEGETATION RECOVERY;

CULTIVATION; FORESTRY; FUELS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSES; MASTICATION; RECOVERY; SOILS; VEGETATION;

SEED;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GERMINATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; RESPROUTING; SEED BANK; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILDFIRE;

SPAIN;

EID: 84877804105     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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