Blowdown history and landscape patterns in the Andes of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 678-692

  Rebertus, Alan J ^a   Kitzberger, Thomas ^b,d   Veblen, Thomas T ^b   Roovers, Lynn M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c N Central Forest Experiment Station   (United States)

^d LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Blowdowns; Browsing; Disturbance; Guanaco; Interactions, disturbance type; Landscape pattern; Nothofagus pumilio; Southern beech; Tierra del Fuego; Treefalls; Wind

Indexed keywords

BLOWDOWN; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; RETURN INTERVALS; SOUTHERN BEECH; STAND DEVELOPMENT; STORM; VEGETATION;

ARGENTINA, TIERRA DEL FUEGO, ANDES; ARGENTINA, TIERRA DEL FUEGO, SIERRA DE LAS PINTURAS;

FAGACEAE; LAMA GUANACO; NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO;

EID: 0030616828     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0678:BHALPI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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