Comparing selected fire regime condition class (FRCC) and LANDFIRE vegetation model results with tree-ring data

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Swetnam, Tyson L ^a   Brown, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research   (United States)

Author keywords

reference conditions; successional classes; Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958016479     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF08001     Document Type: Review

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