Initial response of conifer and California black oak seedlings following fuel reduction activities in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 3141-3150

  Moghaddas, Jason J ^a   York, Robert A ^b   Stephens, Scott L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire hazards; Fire surrogates; Fuel treatments; Prescribed fire; Regeneration; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

FIRE RESISTANCE; FORESTRY; SEED;

FIRE SURROGATES; FUEL TREATMENTS; PRESCRIBED FIRE; WILDFIRE;

FIRE HAZARDS;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; FUEL; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEEDLING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WILDFIRE;

FIRE RESISTANCE; FOREST FIRES; QUERCUS VELUTINA; SEEDLINGS; SOFTWOODS;

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

CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS LAMBERTIANA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; QUERCUS KELLOGGII; QUERCUS VELUTINA;

EID: 43049118214     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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