Fire disturbance in Amazonian blackwater floodplain forests

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 319-327

  Flores, Bernardo M ^a   Piedade, Maria Teresa F ^a   Nelson, Bruce W ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

El Ni o; enhanced vegetation index (EVI); fire damage; forest succession; igap ; resilience; tree mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893322332     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2012.716086     Document Type: Article

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