Rapid assessment of postfire plant invasions in coniferous forests of the western United States

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1656-1665

  Freeman, Jonathan P ^a   Stohlgren, Thomas J ^b   Hunter, Molly E ^a   Omi, Philip N ^a   Martinson, Erik J ^a   Chong, Geneva W ^c   Brown, Cynthia S ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis; CCA; Disturbance; Fire ecology; Fire effects; Fuel treatments; Fuels reduction; Invasion; Nonnative species; Species diversity; Species richness; Species environment relationships

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; INVASIVE SPECIES; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; THINNING; WILDFIRE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARTICLE; CONIFER; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GEOGRAPHY; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38449099257     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1859.1     Document Type: Article

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