Relationships of subalpine forest fires in the Colorado Front Range with interannual and multidecadal-scale climatic variation

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 833-842

  Sibold, Jason S ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Abies lasiocarpa; Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Fire climate relationships; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Picea engelmannii; Pinus contorta; Subalpine forests

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOREST FIRE; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 33646015350     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01456.x     Document Type: Article

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