Snags and coarse woody debris: An important legacy of forests in the greater yellowstone ecosystem

After the Fires The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 279-298

  Tinker, Daniel B ^a   Knight, Dennis H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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