Climatic influences on fire regimes along a rain forest-to-xeric woodland gradient in northern Patagonia, Argentina

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-47

  Kitzberger, Thomas ^a,b   Veblen, Thomas T ^a   Villalba, Ricardo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Austrocedrus; climatic variation; fire history; Nothofagus; Patagonia

Indexed keywords

FIRE; RAINFALL GRADIENT; RAINFOREST; XERIC WOODLAND;

ARGENTINA, PATAGONIA;

AUSTROCEDRUS; CUPRESSACEAE; FAGACEAE; NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 0030617840     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.1997.tb00048.x     Document Type: Article

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