Using bigcone douglas-fir fire scars and tree rings to reconstruct interior chaparral fire history

Fire Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 35-56

  Lombardo, Keith J ^a   Swetnam, Thomas W ^a   Baisan, Christopher H ^a   Borchert, Mark I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaparral; Dendrochronology; Fire history; Fire regimes; Los padres national forest; Pseudotsuga macrocarpa; Southern California

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; LAND MANAGEMENT; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CALIFORNIA; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MACROCARPA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 77949646372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0503035     Document Type: Article

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