Assessing the impacts of severe fire on forest ecosystem recovery

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 177-228

  Everett, Richard L ^a   Zeleny, Ronald ^b   Cromack, Kermit ^c   Landsberg, Johanna D ^a   Anderson, Tom D ^a   Giardina, Christian P ^d   Strand, Eva K ^e   Averill, Robert ^a   Smyrski, Rose ^f  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Forest Inventory and Analysis Program Manager   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^f FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion; Fire; Forest ecosystems; GIS; Nutrients; Soil; Thunderstorm; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; VULNERABILITY; WILDFIRE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033757109     PISSN: 10549811     EISSN: 1540756X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J091v11n01_08     Document Type: Article

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