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Silva Lusitana

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FERNANDES, Paulo; BOTELHO, Hermínio  and  REGO, Francisco. The Fire Ecology of Maritime Pine. Silva Lus. [online]. 2005, vol.13, n.2, pp.233-248. ISSN 0870-6352.

Maritime pine has characteristics that can be interpreted as evolutionary adaptations to fire and are consistent with the strategies of resistance (thick bark), an adequate response to low-severity fire occurrence, and evasion (cone serotiny), correspondent to high-severity fire. Such concurrent strategies should enable persistence under a variable or mixed fire regime, but the development and coexistence of the traits involved varies among Iberian populations of the species. Three distinct fire regimes can therefore be distinguished: high-severity, stand-replacement, unpredictable fire; thinning fire of low to moderate severity; and high-severity, stand-replacement fire.

Keywords : Pinus pinaster; fire ecology; fire effects; fire regime; vegetation dynamics.

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