Modeling impacts of fire severity on successional trajectories and future fire behavior in Alaskan boreal forests

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 487-500

  Johnstone, Jill F ^a,b   Rupp, T Scott ^b   Olson, Mark ^b   Verbyla, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

ALFRESCO; Black spruce; Boreal forest; Climate change; Disturbance; Fire regime; Forest regeneration; Picea mariana; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGENERATION; SUCCESSION;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 79953097062     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9574-6     Document Type: Article

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