Evolutionary fire ecology: Lessons learned from pines

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 318-324

  Pausas, Juli G ^a  

^a CDIS UV Generalitat Valenciana)   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FIRE; PINE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; PINUS;

EID: 84928828444     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.03.001     Document Type: Review

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