Climatic influences on fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Zuni Mountains, NM, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 322, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-77

  Rother, Monica T ^a   Grissino Mayer, Henri D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate fire interactions; Dendrochronology; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Fire history; Palmer Drought Severity Index; Ponderosa pine

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FORESTRY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FIRE HISTORY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PONDEROSA PINES; SUPERPOSED-EPOCH ANALYSIS;

FIRES;

DROUGHT; FIRES; FORESTRY; PINUS PONDEROSA;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 84899985972     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.034     Document Type: Article

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