Climate effects on fire regimes and tree recruitment in Black Hills ponderosa pine forests

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2500-2510

  Brown, Peter M ^a  

^a Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic multidecadal oscillation; Crossdating; Dendrochronology; El Ni o Southern oscillation; Fire history; Fire regime; Pacific decadal oscillation; Precipitation variation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; EVERGREEN FOREST; FIRE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RECRUITMENT;

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; FIRE; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PONDEROSA PINE; UNITED STATES;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; FIRES; FORESTRY; PINUS PONDEROSA; SOUTH DAKOTA; WYOMING;

BLACK HILLS; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 33845366278     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2500:CEOFRA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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