Twenty-year change in aspen dominance in pure aspen and mixed aspen/conifer stands on the Uncompahgre Plateau, Colorado, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 213, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 338-348

  Smith, Amy E ^a   Smith, Frederick W ^a  

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

Author keywords

Aspen; Aspen decline; Populus tremuloides Colorado; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; FIRES; INVENTORY CONTROL;

LANDSCAPE; OVERSTORY DEVELOPMENT; PLATEAU; SPECIES;

FORESTRY;

DOMINANCE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BASAL AREA; CUTTING; FIRES; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTS; GROWTH; INVENTORY CONTROL; POPULUS TREMULA; REFORESTATION; SOFTWOODS;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CONIFEROPHYTA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 20744436551     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.03.018     Document Type: Article

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