Surface fuel sampling strategies: Linking fuel measurements and fire effects

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 223-229

  Twidwell, Dirac ^a   Fuhlendorf, Samuel D ^b   Engle, David M ^b   Taylor Jr , Charles A ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crown scorch; Fuel load; Functional scale; Juniperus; Prescribed fire; Random sampling

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; FIRE; FUEL; PLATEAU; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SAMPLING;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS ASHEI; JUNIPERUS PINCHOTII;

EID: 67049096134     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/08-124R2.1     Document Type: Article

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