Modeling high-severity fire, drought and climate change impacts on ponderosa pine regeneration

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 253, Issue , 2013, Pages 56-69

  Feddema, Johannes J ^a   Mast, Joy Nystrom ^b   Savage, Melissa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b CARTHAGE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; High severity fire; Ponderosa pine; Southwest; Tree regeneration

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE RECORD; FIRE EVENT; FUTURE CLIMATE; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; HIGH-SEVERITY FIRES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; PONDEROSA PINE FOREST; PONDEROSA PINES; REGENERATION RATE; SEED PRODUCTION; SEEDLING GROWTH; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SOUTHWEST; TREE REGENERATION; WATER BALANCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; DROUGHT; FIRES; SEED;

REFORESTATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; FOREST FIRE; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; REGENERATION; SEED PRODUCTION; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84873714186     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.12.029     Document Type: Article

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