Relationships between fire severity and post-fire landscape pattern following a large mixed-severity fire in the Valle Vidal, New Mexico, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1392-1400

  Hayes, James J ^a   Robeson, Scott M ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire ecology; Landscape metrics; Landscape pattern; Mixed severity fire; Moving window metrics; Ponderosa pine; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

FIRE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE METRICS; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; MIXED-SEVERITY FIRE; MOVING-WINDOW METRICS; PONDEROSA PINES; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

FIRES;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; WILDFIRE;

ECOLOGY; FIRES; FORESTRY; PINUS PONDEROSA;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 79952037874     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.01.023     Document Type: Article

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