Mineral nutrition and specific leaf area of plants under contrasting long-term fire frequencies: a case study in a mesic savanna in Australia

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 329-335

  de Souza, Marcelo Claro ^a,b   Rossatto, Davi Rodrigo ^a   Cook, Garry David ^c   Fujinuma, Ryosuke ^d   Menzies, Neal William ^d   Morellato, Leonor Patricia Cerdeira ^a   Habermann, Gustavo ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire management; Leaf scleromorphism; Native plant nutrition; Soil fertility

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; FIRE PROTECTION; FIRES; FORESTRY; NUTRIENTS; NUTRITION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; VEGETATION;

CONTROLLING FACTORS; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS; LEAF NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; LEAF SCLEROMORPHISM; NATIVE PLANTS; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIFIC LEAF AREA;

INCINERATION;

EID: 84958119589     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-015-1285-1     Document Type: Article

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