California black oak responses to fire severity and native conifer encroachment in the Klamath Mountains

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 270, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-34

  Cocking, Matthew I ^a   Varner, J Morgan ^a   Sherriff, Rosemary L ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological restoration; Fire exclusion; Oak woodland; Positive feedbacks; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA BLACK OAK; CALIFORNIA OAK WOODLAND; COMPETITIVE PRESSURE; DOUGLAS FIR; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; FIRE EFFECT; FIRE EXCLUSION; FIRE SEVERITY; FIRE-SENSITIVE SPECIES; INCREASING TREES; OAK WOODLAND; POST-FIRE; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; QUERCUS KELLOGGII; STEM MORTALITY; TREE AGE; TREE MORTALITY; VEGETATION CHANGE; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

FEEDBACK; FIRES; PROBABILITY; RESTORATION; THERMAL LOAD;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS BURNING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT RESTORATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MORTALITY; NATIVE SPECIES; OVERSTORY; RESPROUTING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHADE TOLERANCE; WOODLAND;

CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES; MORTALITY; MOUNTAINS; PROBABILITY; QUERCUS; RESTORATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREES;

COAST RANGES; KLAMATH MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; QUERCUS; QUERCUS KELLOGGII;

EID: 84856503006     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.12.039     Document Type: Article

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