Fire history along environmental gradients in the subtropical pine forests of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 289-302

  Martin, Patrick H ^a   Fahey, Timothy J ^b  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud forest; Dendrochronology; Dominican Republic; El Ni o; Fire history; Fire regimes; Fire scars; Pinus occidentalis; Trade wind inversion; Tropical montane forest

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TRADE WIND;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CORDILLERA CENTRAL [DOMINICAN REPUBLIC]; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; GREATER ANTILLES;

PINUS OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 33645871842     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467406003178     Document Type: Article

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