Effect of prior disturbances on the extent and severity of wildfire in Colorado subalpine forests

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 759-769

  Kulakowski, Dominik ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Abies lasiocarpa; Blowdown; Classification trees; Disturbance interactions; Fire; Picea engelmannii; Spruce beetle; Subalpine forests

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PEST OUTBREAK; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TREE RING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

COLORADO; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TREES;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 34247130172     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0124     Document Type: Article

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