Posttreatment tree mortality after forest ecological restoration, Arizona, United States

Environmental Management

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 623-634

  Fulé, Peter Z ^a   Roccaforte, John P ^a   Covington, W Wallace ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; Fuel; Gambel oak; Mortality; Ponderosa pine; Thinning

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE;

ECOSYSTEMS; FIRE HAZARDS; NORTH AMERICA; RESTORATION;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FUEL; MORTALITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; THINNING; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; CANOPY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIRE; FOREST; MORTALITY; PINE; PONDEROSA PINE; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTRY; NATURAL DISASTERS; PINUS PONDEROSA; QUERCUS; TREES;

ECOLOGY; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PINUS PONDEROSA; QUERCUS; RESTORATION;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS GAMBELII;

EID: 34648824636     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-006-0374-8     Document Type: Article

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