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A Piroecologia do Pinheiro Bravo

2005; EDP Sciences; Volume: 13; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

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Paulo M. Fernandes, Hermínio Botelho, Francisco Rego,

Forest ecology and management

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.