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Timing of fire relative to seed development may enable non-serotinous species to recolonize from the aerial seed banks of fire-killed trees
S. T. Michaletz
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1041 E Lowell St., BSW #310, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Department of Biological Sciences and Biogeoscience Institute, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
E. A. Johnson
Department of Biological Sciences and Biogeoscience Institute, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
W. E. Mell
Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab, US Forest Service, 400 N. 34th St. Suite 201, Seattle, WA 98103, USA
D. F. Greene
Department of Geography, Planning & Environment, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve W., H 1255-26 Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
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