Disturbance and climate influences on age structure of ponderosa pine at the pine/grassland ecotone, Colorado Front Range

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 743-755

  Mast, Joy Nystrom ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^b,c   Linhart, Yan B ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Forest Res Institute of New Zealand   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Fire; Grazing; Timberline

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; UNITED STATES;

CONIFERALES; PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 0031774042     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.2540743.x     Document Type: Article

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