Relationships between landscape patterns and fire occurrence within a successional gradient in sagebrush steppe-juniper woodland

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-77

  Roth, Aaron D ^a,b   Bunting, Stephen C ^a   Strand, Eva K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

FARSITE; fire models; FRAGSTATS; Idaho; Juniperus occidentalis Hook. var. occidentalis; Northern Great Basin; simulated fire; western juniper

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 79951734855     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF08189     Document Type: Article

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