A model of surface fire, climate and forest pattern in the Sierra Nevada, California

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 114, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 113-135

  Miller, Carol ^a   Urban, Dean L ^b  

^a Graduate Degree Program in Ecology   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire regime; Fire suppression; Forest gap model; Landscape pattern; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST FIRE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032929176     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(98)00119-7     Document Type: Article

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