Effect of stand-replacing fires on Mediterranean plant species in their marginal alpine range

Alpine Botany

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 123-133

  Lonati, Michele ^a   Vacchiano, Giorgio ^a   Berretti, Roberta ^a   Motta, Renzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Conservation; Forest fire; Inner alpine valleys; Pinus sylvestris L.; Plant diversity

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CANOPY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST FIRE; GRASSLAND; PLANT; RUDERAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ALPS; ITALY; VALLE D'AOSTA;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS; STENO;

EID: 84885594391     PISSN: 16642201     EISSN: 1664221X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00035-013-0115-6     Document Type: Article

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