Post-fire recovery of abies cephalonica forest communities: The case of mt Parnitha national park, Attica, Greece

IForest

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 757-764

  Christopoulou, Anastasia ^a,b   Kazanis, Dimitrios ^a   Fyllas, Nikolaos M ^c   Arianoutsou, Margarita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greek fir; Mountain forests; Post fire regeneration; Secondary succession; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061630757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor2744-011     Document Type: Article

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