Average stand age from forest inventory plots does not describe historical fire regimes in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of western North America

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Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Stevens, Jens T ^a   Safford, Hugh D ^a,b   North, Malcolm P ^a,c   Fried, Jeremy S ^d   Gray, Andrew N ^d   Brown, Peter M ^e   Dolanc, Christopher R ^f   Dobrowski, Solomon Z ^g   Falk, Donald A ^h   Farris, Calvin A ⁱ   Franklin, Jerry F ^j   Fulé, Peter Z ^k   Keala Hagmann, R ^j   Knapp, Eric E ^c   Miller, Jay D ^b   Smith, Douglas F ^l   Swetnam, Thomas W ^h   Taylor, Alan H ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^e Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research   (United States)

^f MERCYHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^k NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l Yosemite National Park   (United States)

^m PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORTH AMERICA; PONDEROSA PINE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; CONIFER; FIRE; FOREST;

CONIFEROPHYTA; FIRES; FORESTS; NORTH AMERICA; PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 84971350713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147688     Document Type: Article

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