Effects of landscape patterns of fire severity on regenerating ponderosa pine forests (Pinus ponderosa) in New Mexico and Arizona, USA

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1055-1069

  Haire, Sandra L ^a   McGarigal, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn severity; Ecological restoration; Forest age structure; Forest recovery; Generalized linear models; Seed dispersal kernel; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AGE; BURNING; CONIFEROUS TREE; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LINEARITY; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARIZONA; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 77954427361     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9480-3     Document Type: Article

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