Using wildfires as a natural experiment to evaluate the effect of fire on southern California vernal pool plant communities

Global Ecology and Conservation

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages 97-106

  Black, Charles H ^a   Cummins, Kevin M ^b,c   Lawson, Dawn M ^d   Cobb, Coralie ^e  

^a Marine Corps Air Station   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Pacific   (United States)

^e Naval Facilities Engineering Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire, natural experiment; Global change; Invasive species; Messy data; Vernal pools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973911458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23519894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2016.05.005     Document Type: Article

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