Relationships between annual plant productivity, nitrogen deposition and fire size in low-elevation California desert scrub

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 48-58

  Rao, Leela E ^a   Matchett, John R ^b   Brooks, Matthew L ^b   Johnson, Robert F ^a   Minnich, Richard A ^a   Allen, Edith B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

biomass; fine fuel; Mojave; Sonoran

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922454836     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF13152     Document Type: Article

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