Variability in fire regimes of high-elevation whitebark pine communities, western montana USA

Ecoscience

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 282-298

  Larson, Evan R ^a,b   Van De Gevel, Saskia L ^a   Grissino Mayer, Henri D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire history; Fire suppression; Mixed severity fire regime; Montana; Pinus albicaulis; Whitebark pine

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROECOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

LOLO NATIONAL FOREST; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

ABIES LASIOCARPA; COLEOPTERA; PINUS ALBICAULIS; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 76149126440     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/16-3-3240     Document Type: Article

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