A spatially-explicit reconstruction of historical fire occurrence in the ponderosa pine zone of the Colorado front range

Ecosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 311-323

  Sherriff, Rosemary L ^a,b   Veblen, Thomas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado Front Range; Fire history; Fire regime; Geographic information system; Pinus ponderosa; Ponderosa pine

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST COVER; GIS; RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 34447559986     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9022-2     Document Type: Article

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