Non-serotinous woody plants behave as aerial seed bank species when a late-summer wildfire coincides with a mast year

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 3830-3840

  Pounden, Edith ^a   Greene, David F ^a   Michaletz, Sean T ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Engelmann spruce; Fire; Mass seeding; Masting; Regeneration; Seed viability; Serotiny

Indexed keywords

PICEA ENGELMANNII;

EID: 84908495900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1247     Document Type: Article

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