Long-term, landscape patterns of past fire events in a montane ponderosa pine forest of central Colorado

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 513-532

  Brown, Peter M ^a   Kaufmann, Merrill R ^b   Shepperd, Wayne D ^b  

^a Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossdating; Dendrochronology; Fire chronology; Fire extent; Fire frequency; Fire regimes; Fire scars; Fire seasonality; Fire severity

Indexed keywords

FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LONG-TERM CHANGE;

UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 0032861977     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008137005355     Document Type: Article

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