Vegetation responses to season of fire in an aseasonal, fire-prone fynbos shrubland
Season of fire has marked effects on floristic composition in fire-prone Mediterranean-climate shrublands. In these winter-rainfall systems, summer-autumn fires lead to optimal recruitment of overstorey proteoid shrubs (non-sprouting, slow-maturing, serotinous Proteaceae) which are important to the...
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PeerJ Inc.
2017-08-01
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/3591.pdf |