Forest pattern, fire, and climatic change in the Sierra Nevada

Ecosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 76-87

  Miller, Carol ^a,c   Urban, Dean L ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Connectivity; Fire regime; Forest gap model; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033006857     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900060     Document Type: Article

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