Influence of time since fire on pinyon-juniper woodland structure

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 274, Issue , 2012, Pages 29-37

  Huffman, David W ^a   Crouse, Joseph E ^a   Walker Chancellor, W ^a   Fulé, Peter Z ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Coarse woody material; Secondary succession; Stand replacing fire; Structural complexity; Tree recruitment

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; TREE RECRUITMENT; WOODY MATERIALS;

BIOMASS; FIRES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; LINEARITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEEDLING; VEGETATION COVER; WOODLAND;

ARIZONA; BIOMASS; FORESTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TREES; WOOD;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 84858978034     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.02.014     Document Type: Article

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