Fire history and forest structure of an endangered subtropical ecosystem in the Florida Keys, USA
@article{Harley2013FireHA, title={Fire history and forest structure of an endangered subtropical ecosystem in the Florida Keys, USA}, author={Grant Logan Harley and Henri D. Grissino-Mayer and Sally P. Horn}, journal={International Journal of Wildland Fire}, year={2013}, volume={22}, pages={394-404} }
We focussed on the influence of historical fire and varied fire management practices on the structure of globally endangered pine rockland ecosystems on two adjacent islands in the Florida Keys: Big Pine Key and No Name Key. We reconstructed fire history in two stands from fire scars on South Florida slash pines (Pinus elliottii Engelm. var. densa Little & Dor.) that were accurately dated using dendrochronology, and quantified stand structure to infer successional trajectories. Fire regimes on…
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