Fire history of an isolated subalpine mountain range of the Intermountain Region, United States

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1071-1080

  Murray, Michael P ^a   Bunting, Stephen C ^a   Morgan, Penny ^a  

^a Department of Range Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire regimes; Human impacts; Island mountain range

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FIRE HISTORY; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032464887     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.00241.x     Document Type: Article

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