Age structure of aspen forests on the Uncompahgre Plateau, Colorado

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 836-841

  Binkley, Dan ^a   Alsanousi, Attia ^a   Romme, William H ^a  

^a and Department of Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire regime; Forest age structure; Landscape scale forest analysis; Sudden aspen decline

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903266821     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0017     Document Type: Note

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