Predation on early recruitment in Mediterranean forests after prescribed fires

Forests

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Sagra, Javier ^a   Moya, Daniel ^a   Plaza Álvarez, Pedro Antonio ^a   Lucas Borja, Manuel Esteban ^a   Alfaro Sánchez, Raquel ^b   De Las Heras, Jorge ^a   Ferrandis, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological restoration; Mediterranean forest; Prescribed fires; Seed emergence; Seedling survival

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MAMMALS; REFORESTATION;

ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST; PRESCRIBED FIRES; SEED EMERGENCE; SEEDLING SURVIVAL;

FIRES;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PREDATION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; PINUS NIGRA; PRESCRIBED BURNING; REFORESTATION; SEEDLINGS; SILVICULTURE;

SPAIN;

AVES; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PINUS NIGRA; PINUS PINASTER; RODENTIA;

EID: 85026212505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f8070243     Document Type: Article

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