Land-use legacy of historical tree harvesting for charcoal production in a semi-arid woodland

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1283-1292

  Ko, Dongwook W ^a,b   Sparrow, Ashley D ^a,c   Weisberg, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Central Nevada; Great Basin; Historical harvesting; Pinyon pine (Pinus monophylla Torr. and Fr m.); Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma (Torr.) Little); Woodland expansion

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NEVADA; GREAT BASIN; HISTORICAL HARVESTING; JUNIPERUS OSTEOSPERMA; WOODLAND EXPANSION;

CHARCOAL; EXPANSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; REFORESTATION;

HARVESTING;

AFFORESTATION; CHARCOAL; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CULTURAL TRADITION; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVERGREEN FOREST; GIS; HARVESTING; HISTORICAL RECORD; LAND USE CHANGE; MINING; NINETEENTH CENTURY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOECOLOGY; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUCCESSION; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WOODLAND;

CHARCOAL; EXPANSION; GIS; HARVESTING; JUNIPERUS OSTEOSPERMA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEVADA; PINUS MONOPHYLLA; REFORESTATION; USA;

UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS OSTEOSPERMA; PINUS EDULIS; PINUS MONOPHYLLA;

EID: 79951944284     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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