Eighty years of change: Vegetation in the montane ecoregion of Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2010-2021

  Rhemtulla, Jeanine M ^a   Hall, Ronald J ^a,b   Higgs, Eric S ^a   Macdonald, S Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; FORESTRY; RESTORATION;

GROUND PHOTOGRAPHS;

VEGETATION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ECOREGION; FIRE HISTORY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CANADA;

INSECTA;

EID: 0036938210     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x02-112     Document Type: Article

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