Fire history of a central Nevada pinyon-juniper woodland

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1589-1599

  Bauer, John M ^a   Weisberg, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; FIRE CYCLES; FIRE EXCLUSION; FIRE FREQUENCIES; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE REGIMES; FIRE SCARS; GREAT BASIN; JUNIPERUS OSTEOSPERMA; PINYON-JUNIPER WOODLANDS; PLAUSIBLE MECHANISMS; SHRUBLANDS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; STUDY AREAS; SUPERPOSED-EPOCH ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; TREE RINGS; VALLEY FLOOR; WOODLAND AREAS;

DEBRIS; DISASTERS; DROUGHT;

FIRES;

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHY; FIRE HISTORY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RECONSTRUCTION; REINTRODUCTION; SHRUB; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORSHIP; TREE RING; WOODLAND;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS OSTEOSPERMA; PINUS EDULIS; PINUS MONOPHYLLA;

EID: 69249108722     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-078     Document Type: Article

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