Vegetation change from the Euro-American settlement era to the present in relation to environment and disturbance in southwest Oregon

Northwest Science

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 310-328

  Duren, Olivia C ^a   Muir, Patricia S ^a   Hosten, Paul E ^b,c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

^c Kalaupapa National Historic Park   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental gradients; General Land Office surveys; Klamath Siskiyou region; southwest Oregon; vegetation distribution

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GRAZING PRESSURE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA; KLAMATH-SISKIYOU; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867829404     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3955/046.086.0407     Document Type: Article

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