Landscape patterns and legacies resulting from large, infrequent forest disturbances

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 497-510

  Foster, David R ^a   Knight, Dennis H ^b   Franklin, Jerry F ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fire; Flood; Forest ecosystem; Hurricane; Landscape; Legacy; Mississippi River; Mount St. Helens; Tornado; Volcano; Yellowstone fires

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000887642     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900046     Document Type: Article

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