Paleoecological perspectives on fire ecology: Revisiting the fire-regime concept

Open Ecology Journal

Volumn 3, Issue SPEC.ISS.1, 2010, Pages 6-23

  Whitlock, Cathy ^a   Higuera, Philip E ^a,b   McWethy, David B ^a   Briles, Christy E ^a,c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charcoal records; Fire history; Fire regimes; Fire triangle; Fire climate; Fire human; Fire vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650257295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18742130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874213001003020006     Document Type: Article

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