Effects of fire on riparian forests along a free-flowing dryland river

Wetlands

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-86

  Stromberg, Juliet C ^a   Rychener, Tyler J ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Population structure; Populus; Salix; Semiarid; Tamarix

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DECIDUOUS TREE; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST FIRE; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MORTALITY; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESPROUTING; RIPARIAN FOREST; RIVER FLOW; SEMIARID REGION; SURVIVORSHIP; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARIZONA; SAN PEDRO RIVER; UNITED STATES;

POPULUS; POPULUS FREMONTII; SALIX; SALIX GOODDINGII; TAMARIX;

EID: 77951025877     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-009-0008-z     Document Type: Article

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