Testing a pyroclimatic hypothesis on the Mexico-United States border

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1830-1840

  Fulé, Peter Z ^a   Yocom, Larissa L ^a   Montaño, Citlali Cortés ^a,b   Falk, Donald A ^c   Cerano, Julian ^d   Villanueva Díaz, José ^d  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Climatic control; Fire regime; Fire scar; Land use; Pinus durangensis; Pinus ponderosa var. arizonica; Pinus strobiformis; Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CLIMATE MODELING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; DATA SET; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; GRAZING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAND USE CHANGE; LESION; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; MEXICO; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; MEXICO; TIME FACTORS; TREES; UNITED STATES;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

PINUS ARIZONICA; PINUS DURANGENSIS; PINUS STROBIFORMIS; RHYNCHOPSITTA PACHYRHYNCHA;

EID: 84864703714     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1991.1     Document Type: Article

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