Spatial patterns of Mexican pine-oak forests under different recent fire regimes

Plant Ecology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 197-209

  Fulé, Peter Z ^a   Covington, W Wallace ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alder; Fire; Long needled pines; Madrone; Mexico; Oak; Sierra Madre Occidental; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

]FIRE REGIME; MORTALITY; OAK-PINE FOREST; SPATIAL PATTERN;

FAGACEAE; PINACEAE; PINUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 0031907662     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009789018557     Document Type: Article

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