Charcoal production, dispersal, and deposition from the Fort Providence experimental fire: Interpreting fire regimes from charcoal records in boreal forests

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1642-1656

  Lynch, Jason A ^a,c   Clark, James S ^a   Stocks, Brian J ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEPOSITION; FIRES; FORESTRY; LAKES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

CHARCOAL PRODUCTION; CHARRED PARTICLES; INTERNATIONAL CROWN FIRE MODELLING EXPERIMENT (ICFME);

CHARCOAL;

BOREAL FOREST; CHARCOAL; DEPOSITION; DISPERSAL; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

AIR DEPOSITION; CARBON; CHARCOAL; CHELATION; FOREST FIRES; LAKES; PARTICLES;

CANADA; FORT PROVIDENCE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8644231857     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X04-071     Document Type: Article

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