Fire legacies impact conifer regeneration across environmental gradients in the U.S. northern Rockies

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 619-636

  Kemp, Kerry B ^a   Higuera, Philip E ^b   Morgan, Penelope ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance to seed source; Mixed severity; Patch size; Resilience; Tree regeneration; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MORTALITY; PATCH SIZE; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL; TREE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WILDFIRE;

UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84957436704     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0268-3     Document Type: Article

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