Evaluating restoration baselines for historically fire-protected woodlands within a Northeastern Illinois prairie peninsula landscape

Natural Areas Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 166-177

  Fahey, R T ^a   Maurer, D A ^b   Bowles, M L ^a   McBride, J ^a  

^a MORTON ARBORETUM   (United States)

^b Lake County Illinois   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicago; historical ecology; historical range of variability; oak woodland; public land surveys

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WOODLAND;

DES PLAINES RIVER; ILLINOIS; LAKE COUNTY [ILLINOIS]; PRAIRIE RIDGE STATE NATURAL AREA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901006259     PISSN: 08858608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3375/043.034.0206     Document Type: Review

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