Monitoring Landscape-Scale Ponderosa Pine Restoration Treatment Implementation and Effectiveness

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 820-833

  Roccaforte, John P ^a   Fulé, Peter Z ^a   Covington, W Wallace ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Ecological restoration; Forest structure; Landscape scale; Monitoring; Mt. Trumbull; Ponderosa pine; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BURNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; THINNING;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78049460479     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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