Variability of warm/dry mixed conifer forests in southwestern Colorado, USA: Implications for ecological restoration

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 304, Issue , 2013, Pages 182-191

  Korb, Julie E ^a   Fulé, Peter Z ^b   Wu, Rosalind ^c  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Fire history; San Juan Mountains; Topography

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL PROBLEM; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST STAND STRUCTURE; MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS; REFERENCE CONDITION; SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FIRES; RESTORATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

FORESTRY;

AGE STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CROSS SECTION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DOMINANCE; FIRE HISTORY; LANDSCAPE; MIXED FOREST; RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; WILDFIRE;

COLORADO; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; METEOROLOGY; REFORESTATION;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84878451221     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.04.028     Document Type: Article

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