Climatic controls on ecosystem resilience: Postfire regeneration in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 9058-9063

  Wilson, Adam M ^a,b,c   Latimer, Andrew M ^d   Silander, John A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Ecology; Fire; Hierarchical bayesian; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOME; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; SCRUB; SOIL FERTILITY; SOUTH AFRICA; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; WINTER; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; GEOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

RAIN;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84937690521     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416710112     Document Type: Article

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