Mapping "old" vs. "young" piñon-juniper stands with a predictive topo-climatic model

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1627-1641

  Jacobs, B F ^a,b   Romme, W H ^a   Allen, C D ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Juniper; Pinyon (pi on); Predictive modeling; Restoration; Topo climatic modeling; Woodland

Indexed keywords

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS MONOSPERMA; PINUS EDULIS; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; JUNIPERUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; SEASON; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; JUNIPERUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PINUS; SEASONS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55949092295     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0847.1     Document Type: Article

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