Spatiotemporal fire dynamics in mixed-conifer and aspen forests in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, USA

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 583-603

  Tepley, Alan J ^a,b   Veblen, Thomas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendro ecology; Fire history; Fire reconstruction; Fire severity; Mixed conifer forest; Mixedseverity fire regime; Quaking aspen; San Juan Mountains; Tree recruitment

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; DENDROECOLOGY; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST DYNAMICS; MIXED FOREST; RECONSTRUCTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 84950315126     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1496.1     Document Type: Article

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