Fire-related landform associations of remnant old-growth trees in the southern Washington Cascade Range

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2371-2381

  Keeton, William S ^a,b   Franklin, Jerry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIOLOGICAL LEGACIES; OLD-GROWTH TREES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES;

FIRE HAZARDS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FOREST FIRE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SNAG; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

DAMPING; ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PSEUDOTSUGA; SOIL; TREES;

CASCADE RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14544280926     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X04-111     Document Type: Article

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