Understory communities of warm-dry, mixed-conifer forests in southwestern Colorado

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 493-503

  Korb, Julie E ^a   Daniels, Mark L ^b   Laughlin, Daniel C ^b   Fulé, Peter Z ^b  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIES; ABIES CONCOLOR; ABIES GRANDIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS PONDEROSA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 38049079277     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2007)52[493:UCOWMF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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