Post-fire regeneration patterns of Pinus nigra in a recently burned area in Mount Taygetos, Southern Greece: The role of unburned forest patches

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 327, Issue , 2014, Pages 148-156

  Christopoulou, Anastasia ^a   Fyllas, Nikolaos M ^a   Andriopoulos, Pavlos ^a   Koutsias, Nikos ^b   Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis G ^c   Arianoutsou, Margarita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Boosted regression trees; Dispersal patterns; Greece; Microhabitat characteristics; Pinus nigra; Post fire regeneration

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES;

BOOSTED REGRESSION TREES; DISPERSAL PATTERNS; GREECE; MICROHABITATS; PINUS NIGRA; POST-FIRE REGENERATIONS;

REFORESTATION;

BIOMASS BURNING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISPERSAL; FOREST FIRE; MICROHABITAT; MONTANE FOREST; RECOLONIZATION; REGENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

GREECE; PELOPONNISOS; TAYGETOS;

PINUS NIGRA;

EID: 84901494162     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.05.006     Document Type: Article

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