Fire regime as a driver of resilience, functional diversity and ecosystem services in Mediterranean mountains

Mountain areas in Portugal are usually defined as territories with rough morphology, low demographic densities, and peculiar agrarian systems based on cattle raising and husbandry. The use of fire has been a common management practice in traditional land use, mainly to control vegetation encroachmen...

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Main Author: Honrado, João José (author)
Other Authors: Torres, João (author), Marques, Joana (author), Proença, Vânia (author), Pereira, Henrique (author), Alonso, Joaquim (author), Aguiar, Carlos (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10198/3213
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/3213