Fire Regimes of Mixed Conifer Forests in the North-Central Sierra Nevada at Multiple Spatial Scales

Northwest Science

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 12-23

  Stephens, Scott L ^a   Collins, Brandon M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; FIRE HISTORY; SEASONALITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 1442340183     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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