Fire history of a lower elevation Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forest in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA

Fire Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 4-19

  Vaillant, Nicole M ^a,b   Stephens, Scott L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Forest Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern sierra nevada; Fire history; Fire climate interactions; Land use; Management

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; EL NINO; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; LAND USE;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS JEFFREYI;

EID: 77949596708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0503004     Document Type: Article

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