Predicted fire behavior and societal benefits in three eastern Sierra Nevada vegetation types

Fire Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-78

  Dicus, Christopher A ^a   Delfino, Kenneth ^a   Weise, David R ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution removal; Artemesia tridentata; Carbon sequestration; Fire behavior; FlamMap; NEXUS; Pinus monophylla; UFORE; Wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIRE; GRASSLAND; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION TYPE; WOODLAND;

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

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; CHRYSOTHAMNUS; ERICAMERIA NAUSEOSA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS CALIFORNICA; PINUS EDULIS; PINUS MONOPHYLLA;

EID: 66449106352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0501067     Document Type: Article

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