Unraveling the relative importance of factors driving post-fire regeneration trajectories in non-serotinous Pinus nigra forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 361, Issue , 2016, Pages 13-22

  Martín Alcón, Santiago ^a   Coll, Lluís ^a,b  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crown fires; Mediterranean pinewoods; Pre fire vegetation; Quercus; Resilience; Unburned patches; Vegetation shift

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; REFORESTATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

CROWN FIRES; MEDITERRANEAN PINEWOODS; PRE-FIRES; QUERCUS; RESILIENCE; UNBURNED PATCHES;

FIRES;

BIOMASS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PATCH DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; SHRUBLAND; SILVICULTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUCCESSION; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAJECTORY; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

PINUS NIGRA; QUERCUS;

EID: 84946761528     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.11.006     Document Type: Article

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