Climate and disturbance forcing of episodic tree recruitment in a southwestern ponderosa pine landscape

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3030-3038

  Brown, Peter M ^a   Wu, Rosalind ^b  

^a Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research Inc   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendroecology; Density independent population dynamics; Drought; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Fire regimes; Tree demography; Tree recruitment

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; FIRE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RECRUITMENT; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

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

EID: 27944474720     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-0034     Document Type: Article

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