Dendroecological Methods for Reconstructing High-Severity Fire in Pine-Oak Forests

Tree-Ring Research

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 67-77

  Guiterman, Christopher H ^a   Margolis, Ellis Q ^a   Swetnam, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

fire scar; Gambel oak; high severity fire; pineoak; ponderosa pine; Quercus gambelii; shrubland; tree rings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940828831     PISSN: 15361098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3959/1536-1098-71.2.67     Document Type: Article

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