Dendroecological testing of the pyroclimatic hypothesis in the central Great Basin, Nevada, , USA

Ecosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Biondi, Franco ^a   Jamieson, Leia P ^a   Strachan, Scotty ^a   Sibold, Jason ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendroecology; Fire history; Great Basin; Mixed conifer woodlands; Mt Irish; Pinus monophylla; Pinus ponderosa; Ponderosa pine; Single leaf pinyon; Tree rings; Wildfire records

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864142545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00068.1     Document Type: Article

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