Disturbance and landscape dynamics in a changing world

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2833-2849

  Turner, Monica G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance regime; Ecosystem ecology; Fire; Global change; Landscape ecology; MacArthur Address; Pinus contorta; Scale; Spatial heterogeneity; Succession; Yellowstone National Park

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FIRE; FUTURE PROSPECT; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; RESEARCH WORK; SUCCESSION;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; METHODOLOGY; TIME;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; TIME FACTORS;

UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 77957740234     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0097.1     Document Type: Article

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