Vegetation cover and species richness after recurrent forest fires in the Eastern Mediterranean ecosystem of Mount Carmel, Israel

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 572, Issue , 2016, Pages 1395-1402

  Tessler, Naama ^a   Wittenberg, Lea ^a   Greenbaum, Noam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mediterranean; Mount Carmel; Recurrent forest fires; Species richness; Vegetation cover

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

FOREST FIRES; MEDITERRANEAN; MOUNT CARMEL; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

FIRES;

DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FIELD SURVEY; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST FIRE; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

ARTICLE; CALICOTOME VILLOSA; CANOPY; CISTUS; CISTUS SALVIIFOLIUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FIRE; FOREST FIRE; ISRAEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE; VEGETATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT;

HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOUNT CARMEL;

CALICOTOME VILLOSA; CISTUS SALVIIFOLIUS;

BIODIVERSITY; FIRES; FORESTS; ISRAEL; PLANTS; TREES;

EID: 84959239937     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.113     Document Type: Article

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