A palaeoecological attempt to classify fire sensitivity of trees in the southern Alps

Holocene

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 565-574

  Tinner, Willy ^a,b   Conedera, Marco ^c   Gobet, Erika ^a   Hubschmid, Priska ^a   Wehrli, Michael ^a   Ammann, Brigitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Charcoal analysis; Long term fire ecology; Pollen analysis; Post fire vegetation dynamics; Southern Alps

Indexed keywords

FIRE HISTORY; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 0033846449     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968300674242447     Document Type: Article

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