Simulating post-wildfire forest trajectories under alternative climate and management scenarios

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1626-1637

  Tarancón, Alicia Azpeleta ^a   Fulé, Peter Z ^a   Shive, Kristen L ^a   Sieg, Carolyn H ^b   Meador, Andrew Sánchez ^a   Strom, Barbara ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Carbon; Climate change; Forest Vegetation Simulator; FVS; Ponderosa pine; Southwest United States

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SIMULATION; WILDFIRE;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; FORESTRY; PROCEDURES; WILDFIRE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; FORESTS; WILDFIRES;

EID: 84908005907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1787.1     Document Type: Article

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