Climate, rain shadow, and human-use influences on fire regimes in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA

Fire Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 20-34

  North, Malcolm P ^a,b   van de Water, Kip M ^b   Stephens, Scott L ^c   Collins, Brandon M ^c  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Fire climate interactions; Fire frequency; Jeffrey pine forests

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST-STEPPE; STAND STRUCTURE;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS; PINUS JEFFREYI;

EID: 77949636344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0503020     Document Type: Article

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