Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1805-1835

  Hessburg, Paul F ^a   Churchill, Derek J ^b   Larson, Andrew J ^c   Haugo, Ryan D ^d   Miller, Carol ^e   Spies, Thomas A ^f   North, Malcolm P ^g   Povak, Nicholas A ^a   Belote, R Travis ^h   Singleton, Peter H ^a   Gaines, William L ⁱ   Keane, Robert E ^j   Aplet, Gregory H ^k   Stephens, Scott L ^l   Morgan, Penelope ^m   Bisson, Peter A ^a   Rieman, Bruce E ⁿ   Salter, R Brion ^a   Reeves, Gordon H ^f  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^e USDA Forest Service Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute   (United States)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^g PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^h Wilderness Society Bozeman   (United States)

ⁱ Washington Conservation Science Institute   (United States)

^j ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^k Wilderness Society Washington DC   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

ⁿ NONE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Forest and rangeland restoration; Hierarchical organization; Large fires; Patch size distributions; Successional patches; Topographic controls

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INSECT; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION OUTBREAK; RANGELAND; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUCCESSION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84945474015     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0218-0     Document Type: Review

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