Modeling prescribed surface-fire regimes for Pinus strobus conservation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1541-1552

  Beverly, Jennifer L ^a,b   Martell, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Disturbance; Optimization; Prescribed fire; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STAND DYNAMICS;

PINUS STROBUS; STROBUS;

EID: 10644263722     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00404.x     Document Type: Article

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