Fire as a controlling process in the North American boreal forest (Chapter 5)
Payette S. 1992. Fire as a controlling process in the North American boreal forest (Chapter 5). Pages 144-169. In Payette S. A Systems Analysis of the Global Boreal Forest. Cambridge University Press. New York City
Major patterns of plant communities and species distribution are induced by various disturbance regimes operating at different spatial and temporal scales. Fire disturbance in the boreal forest creates all sizes of canopy gap, and constitutes one of the most important community processes in vegetation development along complex environmental gradients. At the landscape level, ecological disturbances result in the spatiotemporal development of the vegetation mosaic composed of an assemblage of stand patches of different age, areal extent, and floristic composition.
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Authors
- Payette, S
- Units
- APIS , GRPO , ISRO , PIRO , VOYA
- Keywords
- Disturbance, FIRE, Forest, Forestry, Landscape Ecology, Plant Communities