Variability in leaf area and stemwood increment along a 300-year lodgepole pine chronosequence

Ecosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-61

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Basal area increment; Convergence; Disturbance; Fire ecology; Forest production; Forests; Leaf area index; Pinus contorta; Rocky Mountains; Stand development; Stand production; Stand structure; Succession; Wyoming; Yellowstone National Park

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; BIOMASS; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DISTURBANCE; FIRE; LEAF AREA INDEX; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STAND STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION;

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

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 14844310013     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-004-0067-1     Document Type: Article

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