Vegetation cover and species richness after recurrent forest fires in the Eastern Mediterranean ecosystem of Mount Carmel, Israel
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- 作者：Naama Tesslera ; c ; naamates@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Lea Wittenberga ; Noam Greenbauma ; b
- 关键词：Mediterranean ; Mount Carmel ; Recurrent forest fires ; Species richness ; Vegetation cover
- 刊名：Science of the Total Environment
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：1 December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：572
- 期：Complete
- 页码：1395-1402
- 全文大小：1126 K
文摘
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Vegetation cover changes after recurrent fires, and serve as a good indicator of fire influence.
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In most fire-damaged areas dominant cover was composed from shrubs and dwarf-shrubs.
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Tree cover was severely damaged after recurrent fires, and showed drastic decrease.
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Species richness increased mainly in the first decade after the recurrent fires, and decreased when the forest canopy began to close.
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Fire recurrence with short intervals (4–6 years) may lower the rehabilitated processes of the ecosystem and change its equilibrium.