Bark flammability as a fire-response trait for subalpine trees

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Frejaville, Thibaut ^a,b   Curt, Thomas ^a   Carcaillet, Christopher ^b,c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bark thickness; Combustibility; Ignitability; Top kill; Wood density

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900842376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00466     Document Type: Article

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