The influence of short-interval recurrent forest fires on the abundance of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) on Mount Carmel, Israel

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 324, Issue , 2014, Pages 109-116

  Tessler, Naama ^a   Wittenberg, Lea ^a   Provizor, Ella ^a   Greenbaum, Noam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mediterranean ecosystems; Mount Carmel; Pinus halepensis; Recurrent forest fires

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; REFORESTATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FOREST FIRES; MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN-TYPE ECOSYSTEMS; MOUNT CARMEL; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PINUS HALEPENSIS MILLS; REGENERATION DYNAMICS;

FIRES;

ABUNDANCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEED BANK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES; PINUS HALEPENSIS; REFORESTATION;

HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL; MOUNT CARMEL;

PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 84902151906     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.014     Document Type: Article

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