Fire history and fire management implications in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, interior Alaska

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 304-312

  Drury, S A ^a   Grissom, P J ^a  

^a Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspen; Black spruce; Dendrochronology; Fire history; Fire management; Interior Alaska; White spruce

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DISASTERS; HISTORY; MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES; STANDARDS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FIRE HISTORIES; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FIRE REGIMES; SHORT TIME; TIME FRAMES; TREE RING DATA; WILDLIFE REFUGES;

FIRES;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; NATURE CONSERVATION; POLICY APPROACH; REFUGE;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUKON FLATS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE;

PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 45849142949     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.04.040     Document Type: Article

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