Changes in forest structure of a mixed conifer forest, southwestern Colorado, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1200-1210

  Fulé, Peter Z ^a   Korb, Julie E ^b   Wu, Rosalind ^c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Ecological restoration; Fire history; Fuel; San Juan Mountains

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; BASAL AREA; COLORADO , USA; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DOUGLAS FIR; ECOLOGICAL CHANGES; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE REGIMES; FOREST STRUCTURE; FUTURE CLIMATE; MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS; OPEN FORESTS; PONDEROSA PINE FOREST; PONDEROSA PINES; SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS; SOCIAL VALUES; STAND DENSITIES; TREE DENSITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; CONSERVATION; DISASTERS; ECOLOGY; FIRES; LANDFORMS; RESTORATION;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; BURNING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; MIXED FOREST; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOECOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ABIES CONCOLOR; COLORADO; CONSERVATION; DISASTERS; ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; FORESTS; MOUNTAINS; PINUS PONDEROSA; PSEUDOTSUGA;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

ABIES GRANDIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 68949096606     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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