Differential species responses to compounded perturbations and implications for landscape heterogeneity and resilience

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 266, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-33

  Buma, B ^a   Wessman, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Blowdown; Disturbance interactions; Fire; Resilience; Response strategies; Salvage logging

Indexed keywords

BLOW DOWN; DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE; DISTURBANCE FREQUENCY; DOMINANT SPECIES; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; LODGEPOLE PINE; MULTIPLE DISTURBANCE; RESILIENCE; RESILIENCE MECHANISM; RESPONSE STRATEGIES; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SALVAGE LOGGING; SEED DISPERSAL; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; TREE SPECIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES;

REFORESTATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT RESTORATION; HETEROGENEITY; LOGGING (TIMBER); NONLINEARITY; PERTURBATION; REGENERATION; SEED DISPERSAL;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PINUS CONTORTA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 82155195568     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.10.040     Document Type: Article

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