Comparing modern and past fire regimes to assess changes in prehistoric lightning and anthropogenic ignitions in a Jeffrey pine - Mixed conifer forest in the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Mexico

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 318-330

  Evett, Rand R ^a   Franco Vizcaino, Ernesto ^b   Stephens, Scott L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIRES; LIGHTNING;

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; SPRING ACTIVITY;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIGHTNING; PREHISTORIC; TREE RING;

FIRES; FORESTRY; LIGHTNING;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA SAN PEDRO MARTIR NATIONAL PARK;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS JEFFREYI;

EID: 34547443658     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-280     Document Type: Article

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