Influences of climate, fire, grazing, and logging on woody species composition along an elevation gradient in the eastern Cascades, Washington

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2204-2213

  Haugo, Ryan D ^a   Hall, Sonia A ^b   Gray, Elizabeth M ^b   Gonzalez, Patrick ^c   Bakker, Jonathan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structure; Climate change; Environmental history; Fire suppression; Forest management; Grazing

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; FIRE SUPPRESSION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GRAZING;

DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; FORESTRY; LAND USE; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; AGE STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ECOTONE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GRAZING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND USE; LIVESTOCK; LOGGING (TIMBER); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHRUB; STEPPE; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TOLERANCE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VEGETATION TYPE; WILDFIRE;

AGE; CLIMATES; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; PLANTS; WASHINGTON;

CASCADE RANGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES GRANDIS; ABIES LASIOCARPA; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIPARTITA; CONIFEROPHYTA; LARIX; LARIX OCCIDENTALIS; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS PONDEROSA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 78049275267     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.09.021     Document Type: Article

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