Temporal shifts in the interaction between woody resprouters and an obligate seeder tree during a post‐fire succession in Patagonia

Question: The study of temporal variation of plant–plant interactions has received little attention despite its importance in community dynamics. Successional processes triggered by disturbances such as fire may be determined by changes in key interactions between dominant woody plants. Taking advantage of a 95-yr-old post-fire natural experiment we assessed temporal shifts in post-fire interactions between woody resprouters and the obligate seeder tree Austrocedrus chilensis. We hypothesized that during the initial post-fire period, resprouters may facilitate A. chilensis trees’ growth, while at advanced time since fire the interaction between A. chilensis trees and resprouters may turn to competition.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Journal of Vegetation Science

• Publication date

  2016-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/JVS.12430
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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