Pre-impact forest composition and ongoing tree mortality associated with sudden oak death in the Big Sur region; California

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2342-2354

  Davis, Frank W ^a   Borchert, Mark ^b   Meentemeyer, Ross K ^c   Flint, Alan ^d   Rizzo, David M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b San Bernardino National Forest   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaparral; Community ordination; Landscape disease pattern; Spatial autocorrelation; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BASAL AREA; BIOTIC FACTORS; CALIFORNIA; CROWN FIRES; DENSIFLORUS; DISEASE PATTERNS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVERGREEN FORESTS; EVERGREEN TREE SPECIES; FIRE REGIMES; FOREST PLOTS; GROWING DEGREE DAYS; INVERSION LAYER; MAPPED PATTERNS; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MULTISCALES; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; NON-PARAMETRIC; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; PLANT PATHOGEN; PRE-IMPACT; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; REGIONAL VARIATION; SAMPLING DESIGN; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; STRONG INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE FACTOR; TREE MORTALITY; TREE SPECIES; TREND-SURFACE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION PATTERN;

AUTOCORRELATION; FORESTRY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

FIRES;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AUTOCORRELATION; BASAL AREA; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CHAPARRAL; DICOTYLEDON; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNGUS; MIXED FOREST; MORTALITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; UNDERSTORY;

DISTRIBUTION; FIRES; FORESTRY; MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

BIG SUR; CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

CEANOTHUS; LAURUS NOBILIS; LITHOCARPUS; LITHOCARPUS DENSIFLORUS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; UMBELLULARIA; UMBELLULARIA CALIFORNICA;

EID: 77952111463     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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