Historical variability in fire at the ponderosa pine - Northern Great Plains prairie ecotone, southeastern Black Hills, South Dakota

Ecoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 539-547

  Brown, Peter M ^a   Sieg, Carolyn H ^b  

^a Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research Inc   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossdating; Dendrochronology; Fire chronology; Fire frequency; Grassland fire regimes; Northern Great Plains

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ECOTONE; FIRE HISTORY;

NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 0033500006     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1999.11682563     Document Type: Article

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