Disturbance interactions can impact resilience mechanisms of forests

Ecosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Buma, B ^a   Wessman, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Compounded perturbations; Fire ecology; Forest disturbance; Landscape dynamics; Landscape ecology; Multiple disturbance interactions; Resilience mechanisms; Subalpine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862929270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES11-00038.1     Document Type: Article

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