Effects of fire severity and post-fire climate on short-term vegetation recovery of mixed-conifer and red fir forests in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 171, Issue , 2015, Pages 311-325

  Meng, Ran ^a,e   Dennison, Philip E ^a   Huang, Chengquan ^b   Moritz, Max A ^c   D'Antonio, Carla ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire ecology; Landsat time series data; Post fire climate; Sierra Nevada; Vegetation Change Tracker (VCT)

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; RECOVERY; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

FIRE ECOLOGY; LANDSAT TIME SERIES; POST-FIRE; SIERRA NEVADA; VEGETATION CHANGE;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DROUGHT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSAT; MIXED FOREST; NDVI; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ABIES MAGNIFICA; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84946413751     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.10.024     Document Type: Article

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