Historical change in coastal sage scrub in southern California, USA in relation to fire frequency and air pollution

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 803-815

  Talluto, Matt V ^a,b   Suding, Katharine N ^b  

^a Western Riverside County MSHCP Biological Monitoring Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Biological invasion; Coastal sage scrub; Fire frequency; Grassland encroachment; Mediterranean shrubland; Nitrogen deposition; Wieslander VTM

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIRE; GRASSLAND; HISTORY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SCRUB; SHRUBLAND;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49849104485     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9238-3     Document Type: Article

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