Historical range of fire frequency is not the Achilles' heel of the Corsican black pine ecosystem

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 381-395

  Leys, Bérangère ^a   Finsinger, Walter ^a   Carcaillet, Christopher ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Diversity; Fire ecology; Forest; Mediterranean; Palaeoecology and land use history; Pinus nigra laricio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894273315     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12207     Document Type: Article

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