Reconstructing fire history in central Mongolia from tree-rings

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-92

  Hessl, Amy E ^a   Ariya, Uyanga ^b   Brown, Peter ^c   Byambasuren, Oyunsannaa ^b   Green, Tim ^d   Jacoby, Gordon ^e   Sutherland, Elaine Kennedy ^f   Nachin, Baatarbileg ^b   Maxwell, R Stockton ^g   Pederson, Neil ^e   De Grandpŕ, Louis ^h   Saladyga, Thomas ^a   Tardif, Jacques C ⁱ  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA   (Mongolia)

^c Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^f USDA Forest Service Forestry Science Lab   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change; forest steppe; land use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856894947     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF10108     Document Type: Article

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