Fire–vegetation feedbacks and alternative states: common mechanisms of temperate forest vulnerability to fire in southern South America and New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 247-272

  Kitzberger, T ^a   Perry, G L W ^b   Paritsis, J ^a   Gowda, J H ^a   Tepley, A J ^c   Holz, A ^d   Veblen, T T ^e  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Argentina; bamboo; Chile; flammability; Kunzea; Leptospermum; New Zealand; Nothofagus; rainforest; shrubland

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRE; GLOBAL WARMING; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITERATURE REVIEW; SHRUB; SHRUBLAND; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATE FOREST; VULNERABILITY;

CHILE; NEW ZEALAND;

ANIMALIA; KUNZEA; LEPTOSPERMUM; NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 84973640355     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2016.1151903     Document Type: Review

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