A Systematic Review of Relationships Between Mountain Wildfire and Ecosystem Services

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 1179-1194

  Vukomanovic, Jelena ^a   Steelman, Toddi ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado Front Range; Cultural services; Environmental ecological mechanisms; ES gradient of transformation; Human dimensions; Intermediate services; Landscape legacy; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA); Scales of impact; Scales of mechanisms

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL HISTORY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; STAKEHOLDER; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 85065710295     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-019-00832-9     Document Type: Article

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