Fire history and forest age distribution of an unmanaged Picea abies dominated landscape

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1540-1552

  Wallenius, Tuomo H ^a   Pitkänen, Aki ^b   Kuuluvainen, Timo ^a   Pennanen, Juho ^a   Karttunen, Hanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; FIRES; PEAT;

ANTHROPOGENIC ORIGIN; CHARCOAL ANALYSIS; FOREST AGE DISTRIBUTION; POLLEN ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

AGE STRUCTURE; CHARCOAL; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; POLLEN;

CHARCOAL; FOREST FIRES; FORESTS; PEAT; PICEA ABIES;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FENNOSCANDIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 27744467239     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x05-050     Document Type: Article

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