Negligible influence of spatial autocorrelation in the assessment of fire effects in a mixed conifer forest

Fire Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 116-125

  van Mantgem, Phillip J ^a   Schwilk, Dylan W ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest restoration; Prescribed fire; Pseudoreplication; Sierra Nevada; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; MIXED FOREST; REINTRODUCTION;

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

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 70449591820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0502116     Document Type: Article

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