Vegetation response to prescribed fire in the Kenai Mountains, Alaska

USDA Forest Service - Research Papers RMRS

Volumn , Issue 554, 2003, Pages 1-59

  Boucher, Tina V ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Calamagrostis canadensis; Chugach National Forest; Moose habitat; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling; Prescribed fire; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; REGENERATION; TRANSECT; UNGULATE; VEGETATION;

ALASKA; COAST RANGES; KENAI MOUNTAINS; KENAI PENINSULA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALCES ALCES; CALAMAGROSTIS; CALAMAGROSTIS CANADENSIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 0347930587     PISSN: 05025001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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