Oak bark allometry and fire survival strategies in the Chihuahuan Desert Sky Islands, Texas, USA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Schwilk, Dylan W ^a   Gaetani, Maria S ^a   Poulos, Helen M ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARK; FIRE; OAK; UNITED STATES;

FIRES; PLANT BARK; QUERCUS; TEXAS;

EID: 84893671101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079285     Document Type: Article

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