Controls on vegetation structure in Southwestern ponderosa pine forests, 1941 and 2004

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2305-2319

  Bakker, Jonathan D ^a,b   Moore, Margaret M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona (USA); Coconino National Forest; Hill plots; Land use history; Long term studies; Meta analysis; Overstory understory relationships; Pinus ponderosa; Stand structure

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DOMINANCE; FOREST COVER; GRAZING PRESSURE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; REGENERATION; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ARIZONA; COCONINO NATIONAL FOREST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PONDEROSA PINE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ARIZONA; CATTLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PINUS PONDEROSA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38449117547     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1775.1     Document Type: Article

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