Small-scale fire temperature patterns in upland Quercus communities

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 613-630

  Franklin, Scott B ^a,b   Robertson, Philip A ^a   Fralish, James S ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Deciduous forest; Life behaviour; Semivariance; Spatial analysis; Two term local variance analysis

Indexed keywords

QUERCUS; FAGACEAE;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FIRE TEMPERATURE; OAK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030616736     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2404911     Document Type: Article

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