Revista chilena de historia natural versión impresa ISSN
0716-078X MONTENEGRO, GLORIA et al. Fire regimes and vegetation
responses in two Mediterranean-climate regions. Rev. chil. hist.
nat. [online]. 2004, vol.77, n.3, pp. 455-464. ISSN 0716-078X.
doi: 10.4067/S0716-078X2004000300005. Wildfires resulting from
thunderstorms are common in some Mediterranean-climate regions,
such as southern California, and have played an important role
in the ecology and evolution of the flora. Mediterranean-climate
regions are major centers for human population and thus
anthropogenic impacts on fire regimes may have important
consequences on these plant formations. However, changes in fire
regimes may have different impacts on Mediterranean type-
ecosystems depending on the capability of plants to respond to
such perturbations. Therefore, we compare here fire regimes and
vegetation responses of two Mediterranean-climate regions which
differ in wildfire regimes and history of human occupation, the
central zone of Chile (matorra