Simulation of a fire-sensitive ecological threshold: A case study of Ashe juniper on the Edwards Plateau of Texas, United States

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 245-255

  Fuhlendorf, Samuel D ^a   Smeins, Fred E ^a   Grant, William E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; Juniper; Succession; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS ASHEI; CUPRESSACEAE;

ASHE JUNIPER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL THRESHOLD; FIRE; MODELLING; SUCCESSION;

USA, TEXAS, EDWARDS PLATEAU;

EID: 0030296329     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3800(95)00151-4     Document Type: Article

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