Fire regimes and forest structure in a sky island mixed conifer forest, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 241, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 62-73

  Sakulich, John ^a   Taylor, Alan H ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire regimes; Forest dynamics; Grazing; Guadalupe mountains; Mixed conifer forest; Sky islands; Southwest USA

Indexed keywords

FIRES; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

FIRE REGIMES; FOREST DYNAMICS; GRAZING; GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS; MIXED CONIFER FORESTS; SKY ISLANDS; SOUTHWEST USA;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE; FOREST DYNAMICS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISLAND; MIXED FOREST; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; LOGGING; MOUNTAINS;

GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS STROBIFORMIS; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 33847247248     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.12.029     Document Type: Article

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