Fire history of forest remnants in wetter lodgepole pine dominated forests in southern British Columbia, Canada

Northwest Science

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 86-94

  Meyn, A ^a,b   Feller, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST COVER; FOREST FIRE; MONTANE FOREST; RECONSTRUCTION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PICEA; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 33748093971     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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