Mixed-severity fire regime in a high-elevation forest of Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 465-486

  Fulé, Peter Z ^a   Crouse, Joseph E ^a   Heinlein, Thomas A ^b   Moore, Margaret M ^a   Covington, W Wallace ^a   Verkamp, Greg ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abies; Age structure; Fire ecology; Fire scars; Kaibab plateau; Picea; Pinus; Populus; Pseudotsuga

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; DROUGHT; FIRE HISTORY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MONTANE FOREST; STAND STRUCTURE;

ARIZONA; GRAND CANYON; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES GRANDIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; POPULUS; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 0242592270     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026012118011     Document Type: Article

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