A 400-year history of fire and oak recruitment in an old-growth oak forest in western Maryland, U.S.A.

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1437-1443

  Shumway, D L ^a   Abrams, M D ^a   Ruffner, C M ^a  

^a FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS;

PERIODIC FIRE;

FORESTRY;

FIRE HISTORY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RECRUITMENT;

MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034761356     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x01-079     Document Type: Article

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