Vegetation responses to changing fire regimes in a rocky mountain forest

Fire Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 66-80

  Minckley, Thomas A ^a   Shriver, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire severity; Historical range of variability; Lodgepole pine; Management; Pinus contorta; Pollen analysis; Succession

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DENDROECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PALYNOLOGY; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION; WILDFIRE;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

PINUS CONTORTA; POACEAE;

EID: 80051892420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0702066     Document Type: Article

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