Post-Fire Recovery of Vegetation and Diversity Patterns in Semiarid Pinus halepensis Mill. Habitats after Salvage Logging
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Burn Severity and Post-Fire Management
2.3. Experimental Design and Field Sampling
2.4. Post-Fire Plant Community
2.4.1. Plant Diversity
2.4.2. Fire-Adapted Traits and Life Forms
2.4.3. Pine Recruitment
2.5. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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S | H′ | D | PLANTcover | LITTER | BAREsoil | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
UB | 20.3 ± 1.9 a | 0.952 ± 0.049 a | 0.738 ± 0.021 a | 133.86 ± 9.91 a | 31.10 ± 4.32 a | 16.02 ± 4.47 a |
LS | 24.7 ± 2.3 a | 0.872 ± 0.046 a | 0.921 ± 0.011 c | 149.52 ± 8.54 a | 29.53 ± 7.29 a | 28.86 ± 3.08 ab |
HS | 23.6 ± 2.0 a | 1.122 ± 0.041 b | 0.736 ± 0.021 a | 119.86 ± 6.67 b | 12.79 ± 1.83 b | 19.55 ± 3.65 ab |
HSSL | 25.0 ± 2.3 a | 1.170 ± 0.048 b | 0.809 ± 0.010 b | 93.90 ± 6.89 c | 8.67 ± 0.98 c | 30.25 ± 2.64 b |
p-value | 0.340 | 0.048 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.001 | 0.010 |
F-value | 1.168 | 2.69 | 25.06 | 8.29 | 6.03 | 3.99 |
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Moya, D.; Sagra, J.; Lucas-Borja, M.E.; Plaza-Álvarez, P.A.; González-Romero, J.; De Las Heras, J.; Ferrandis, P. Post-Fire Recovery of Vegetation and Diversity Patterns in Semiarid Pinus halepensis Mill. Habitats after Salvage Logging. Forests 2020, 11, 1345. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11121345
Moya D, Sagra J, Lucas-Borja ME, Plaza-Álvarez PA, González-Romero J, De Las Heras J, Ferrandis P. Post-Fire Recovery of Vegetation and Diversity Patterns in Semiarid Pinus halepensis Mill. Habitats after Salvage Logging. Forests. 2020; 11(12):1345. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11121345
Chicago/Turabian StyleMoya, Daniel, Javier Sagra, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Pedro Antonio Plaza-Álvarez, Javier González-Romero, Jorge De Las Heras, and Pablo Ferrandis. 2020. "Post-Fire Recovery of Vegetation and Diversity Patterns in Semiarid Pinus halepensis Mill. Habitats after Salvage Logging" Forests 11, no. 12: 1345. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11121345
APA StyleMoya, D., Sagra, J., Lucas-Borja, M. E., Plaza-Álvarez, P. A., González-Romero, J., De Las Heras, J., & Ferrandis, P. (2020). Post-Fire Recovery of Vegetation and Diversity Patterns in Semiarid Pinus halepensis Mill. Habitats after Salvage Logging. Forests, 11(12), 1345. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11121345