Species composition and fire: Non-additive mixture effects on ground fuel flammability

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  van Altena, Cassandra ^a,b   van Logtestijn, Richard S P ^a   Cornwell, William K ^a   Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Carbon cycling; Fuel type; Non additivity; Physical configuration; Species interaction; Trait

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878045797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00063     Document Type: Article

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