Mixed-severity fire regimes: Lessons and hypotheses from the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion

Ecosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Halofsky, J E ^a   Donato, D C ^b   Hibbs, D E ^c   Campbell, J L ^c   Cannon, M Donaghy ^c   Fontaine, J B ^d   Thompson, J R ^e   Anthony, R G ^c   Bormann, B T ^f   Kayes, L J ^c   Law, B E ^c   Peterson, D L ^g   Spies, T A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^g PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biscuit Fire; Ecosystem response to fire; Fire behavior; Fire mosaic; Fire regime; Fire severity; Klamath Siskiyou Ecoregion; Post fire ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755180996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00184.1     Document Type: Article

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