Structural-functional approach to identify post-disturbance recovery indicators in forests from northwestern Patagonia: A tool to preventstate transitions

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 85-95

  Cavallero, L ^a   Lopez D R ^b   Raffaele, E ^a   Aizen, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^b Inst Nac de Tecnol Agropecuaria   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Ecological indicators; Environmental heterogeneity; Fire; High risk phases; Low risk phases; Seedling recruitment; Spatial vegetation heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; FIRES; FORESTRY; RECOVERY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY; HIGH-RISK PHASES; LOW-RISK PHASES; SEEDLING RECRUITMENT; SPATIAL VEGETATION HETEROGENEITY;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HETEROGENEITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECOVERY; RESILIENCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VULNERABILITY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; PLANTS; SEEDLINGS;

PATAGONIA;

AUSTROCEDRUS CHILENSIS; NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 84919626477     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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