Resilience and regime change in a southern Rocky Mountain ecosystem during the past 17 000 years

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-68

  Minckley, T A ^a   Shriver, R K ^a,b   Shuman, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate vegetation relationships; Ecosystem resilience; Effective moisture; Fire frequency; Palynological analysis; Rocky Mountains; USA

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST DYNAMICS; FORESTED CATCHMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PEST OUTBREAK; POLLEN; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STEPPE; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; SUCCESSION; TIMESCALE; TOLERANCE;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

ABIES; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; CONIFEROPHYTA; HEXAPODA; PICEA; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 84859577520     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0283.1     Document Type: Article

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