Spatially explicit modeling of mixed-severity fire regimes and landscape dynamics

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 511-523

  Wimberly, Michael C ^a   Kennedy, Rebecca S H ^b  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; Interior Pacific Northwest; Late successional forests; Simulation; Succession

Indexed keywords

FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

INTERIOR PACIFIC NORTHWEST; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; LATE-SUCCESSIONAL FORESTS; SUCCESSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

DRY FOREST; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST FIRE; MODELING; REFUGIUM; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION;

FIRE DETECTORS; FORESTRY; SENSITIVITY; SIMULATION;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

EID: 38349134184     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.06.044     Document Type: Article

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