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Does the I nitial F loristic C omposition model of succession really work?
Author(s) -
Wilson J. Bastow
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of vegetation science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1654-1103
pISSN - 1100-9233
DOI - 10.1111/jvs.12136
Subject(s) - ecological succession , floristics , shrub , ecology , geography , forestry , biology , species richness
Abstract H arvey & H olzman, in this issue of the J ournal of V egetation S cience , describe divergent successional pathways after fire in P inus muricata forest. Fourteen years after fire, the shrub C eanothus thyrsiflorus had occupied flat parts of the area. They predicted it would continue to prevent succession to P . muricata forest, as in the initial floristic composition concepts of C lements and E gler.