Regional Application of Historical Ecology at Ecologically Defined Scales: Forest Ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range

Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 149-165

  Veblen, Thomas T ^a   Romme, William H ^b   Regan, Claudia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b and Department of Statistics   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Case studies of applications; CFLRP, funded by national Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program; Ecological assumptions, management implications based on "default expectations "; Fire mitigation and ecological restoration in the front range; HRV assessment, linking interpretations of ecological research to information needs; HRV assessments for National Forests, in the Rocky Mountain Region; Lower Upper Montane ponderosa pine forests, few opportunities for restoration; Mapping areas, historically characterized by frequent low severity fires; Regional application of historical ecology, the Colorado Front Range; Synthesizing evaluating information on historical ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887163549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118329726.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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