Predicting time-windows for full recovery of postfire regenerating Pinus halepensis Mill. forests after a future wildfire

New Forests

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 53-70

  Daskalakou, Evangelia N ^a   Albanis, Kosmas ^a   Skouteri, Asimina ^a   Thanos, Costas A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cone and seed production; Postfire regeneration; Reproductive shift; Sapling density

Indexed keywords

CANOPY SEED BANK; LITERATURE DATA; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PINUS HALEPENSIS MILLS; POST-FIRE REGENERATIONS; REPRODUCTIVE SHIFT; SAPLING DENSITIES; SEED PRODUCTION;

FIRES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RECOVERY;

REFORESTATION;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FIELD SURVEY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GROWING SEASON; PREDICTION; REGENERATION; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SAPLING; SEED PRODUCTION; WILDFIRE;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CENTRAL GREECE; EUBOEA; GREECE;

EID: 84892447649     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-013-9391-7     Document Type: Article

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