Post-fire regeneration across a fire severity gradient in the southern Cascades

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 287, Issue , 2013, Pages 103-112

  Crotteau, Justin S ^a   Morgan Varner, J ^a   Ritchie, Martin W ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Lassen National Forest; Regeneration; Seedlings; Storrie Fire; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ABIES SPP; ABIOTIC FACTORS; BURN SEVERITY; CALIFORNIA , USA; CONIFER SEEDLINGS; CONIFER SPECIES; FIRE EXCLUSION; FIRE SEVERITY; FOREST TYPE; LAND MANAGERS; NATIONAL FORESTS; POST-FIRE; POST-FIRE REGENERATIONS; REGENERATION; SEEDLINGS; STRATIFIED SAMPLING DESIGN; TREE DIVERSITY; TREE REGENERATION; TREE SEEDLINGS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

DYNAMICS; FIRES; VEGETATION;

REFORESTATION;

CONIFEROUS TREE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HOMOGENEITY; OVERSTORY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE;

FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; SEEDLINGS; USA;

CALIFORNIA; CASCADE RANGE; LASSEN NATIONAL FOREST; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; CEANOTHUS; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84867345032     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.09.022     Document Type: Article

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