The importance of fires and floods on tree ages along mountainous gravel-bed streams

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1757-1770

  Charron, I ^a,b   Johnson, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conifer forests; Fire; Flood; Forest dynamics; Forest management; Gravel bed streams; Headwater streams; Mountain streams; Riparian zone definition; Southwest Alberta, Canada, stream channel bars; Tree establishment

Indexed keywords

FIRE BEHAVIOR; FLOOD DAMAGE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GRAVEL BED STREAM; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; TREE RING;

ARTICLE; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; TIME; TREE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; NATURAL DISASTERS; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 33749561588     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[1757:TIOFAF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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