Stand-replacing patches within a 'mixed severity' fire regime: Quantitative characterization using recent fires in a long-established natural fire area

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 927-939

  Collins, Brandon M ^a   Stephens, Scott L ^b  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire management; Fire regime; Fire severity; RdNBR; Variable severity

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRM SIZE; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PATCH DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION TYPE;

ABIES; ABIES MAGNIFICA; ARCTOSTAPHYLOS; ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA-URSI; CEANOTHUS; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 77953534812     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9470-5     Document Type: Article

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