Spatial controls of pre-Euro-American wind and fire disturbance in northern Wisconsin (USA) forest landscapes

Ecosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-94

  Schulte, Lisa A ^a,c   Mladenoff, David J ^a   Burrows, Sean N ^a,d   Sickley, Theodore A ^a   Nordheim, Erik V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Ascend Analytics   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire disturbance; Logistic regression; Multiscale; Northern US Lake States; Pre Euro American settlement; Spatial autocorrelation; US Public Land Survey; US upper Midwest; Wind disturbance

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WINDTHROW;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WISCONSIN; WORLD;

EID: 14844361177     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-004-0052-8     Document Type: Article

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