Snag longevity and surface fuel accumulation following post-fire logging in a ponderosa pine dominated forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 287, Issue , 2013, Pages 113-122

  Ritchie, Martin W ^a   Knapp, Eric E ^a   Skinner, Carl N ^a  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse woody debris; Salvage logging; Snag dynamics

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; FUEL ACCUMULATION; FUEL LEVELS; LOGGING EFFECTS; NESTING HABITATS; PONDEROSA PINES; POST-FIRE; RETENTION LEVELS; SALVAGE LOGGING; SNAG DYNAMICS; SNAG LONGEVITY; WHITE FIRS;

FORESTRY; FUELS;

FIRES;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DOMINANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUEL; LOGGING (TIMBER); LONGEVITY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SNAG; WILDFIRE;

FOREST FIRES; FUELS; HARVESTING; LOGGING; PINUS PONDEROSA;

BLACK MOUNTAIN; COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

ABIES GRANDIS;

EID: 84867369732     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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