Modeling the effects of fire on the long-term dynamics and restoration of Yellow pine and oak forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 400-411

  Lafon, Charles W ^a,b   Waldron, John D ^b   Cairns, David M ^a   Tchakerian, Maria D ^a   Coulson, Robert N ^a   Klepzig, Kier D ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fire; Forest restoration; Simulation; Succession

Indexed keywords

FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT RESTORATION; MODELING; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA;

PINUS CARIBAEA; PINUS PUNGENS; PINUS RIGIDA; PINUS STROBUS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS MONTANA;

EID: 34547454686     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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