Variability and convergence in stand structural development on a fire-dominated subalpine landscape

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 643-654

  Kashian, Daniel M ^a,b   Turner, Monica G ^a   Romme, William H ^b   Lorimer, Craig G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Fire; Forest; Landscape; Lodgepole pine; Self thinning; Stand density, stand dynamics, stand structure; Subalpine forests; Succession; Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (USA)

Indexed keywords

FIRE; SELF THINNING; STAND DYNAMICS; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 14844295982     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0828     Document Type: Article

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