BAER soil burn severity maps do not measure fire effects to vegetation: A comment on Odion and Hanson (2006)

Ecosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-11

  Safford, Hugh D ^a,b   Miller, Jay ^a   Schmidt, David ^b   Roath, Brent ^a   Parsons, Annette ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BAER mapping; BARC maps; Fire return interval; Fire severity; Manter Fire; McNally Fire; Mixed conifer forests; RdNBR; Sierra Nevada; Spatial heterogeneity; Storrie Fire

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 43149112316     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9094-z     Document Type: Note

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