A comparison of three techniques to date stand-replacing fires in lodgepole pine forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 104, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 171-177

  Kipfmueller, Kurt F ^a   Baker, William L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendroecology; Fire history; Fire scars; Increment cores; Rocky Mountains; Stand origins

Indexed keywords

FIRE; LODGEPOLE PINE; PINE FOREST; SAMPLING;

USA, ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0031924711     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(97)00245-4     Document Type: Article

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