Spatial and temporal corroboration of a fire-scar-based fire history in a frequently burned ponderosa pine forest

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1598-1614

  Farris, Calvin A ^a   Baisan, Christopher H ^a   Falk, Donald A ^a   Yool, Stephen R ^a   Swetnam, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire scar data; History; Landscape scale; National park service fire atlas maps; Ponderosa pine; Saguaro national park; Southern arizona; Thiessen polygons; USA

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIRE HISTORY; HABITAT RESTORATION; IDENTIFICATION KEY; LANDSCAPE; LINEARITY; PHENOLOGY; POLYGON; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE; PHYSIOLOGY; PONDEROSA PINE; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; PINUS PONDEROSA; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA;

EID: 77949618670     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1535.1     Document Type: Article

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