Fire disturbance and forest structure in old-growth mixed conifer forests in the northern Sierra Nevada, California

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 879-890

  Beaty, R Matthew ^a   Taylor, Alan H ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Fire; Fire return interval; Forest structure; Lake Tahoe; Spatial autocorrelation; Stand dynamics

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; MIXED FOREST; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; STAND DYNAMICS; STAND STRUCTURE;

CALIFORNIA; LAKE TAHOE; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 36749021624     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2007)18[879:FDAFSI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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