Future climate affects management strategies for maintaining forest restoration treatments

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 903-913

  Diggins, Corinne ^a   Fulé, Peter Z ^a   Kaye, Jason P ^b   Covington, W Wallace ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon; climate change; ecological restoration; Forest Vegetation Simulator; ponderosa pine.

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149417883     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF09109     Document Type: Article

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