| historical fire and multidecadal drought as context for piñon-juniper woodland restoration in western colorado. | fire is known to structure tree populations, but the role of broad-scale climate variability is less clear. for example, the influence of climatic "teleconnections" (the relationship between oceanic-atmospheric fluctuations and anomalous weather patterns across broad scales) on forest age structure is relatively unexplored. we sampled semiarid piñon-juniper (pinus edulis-juniperus osteosperma) woodlands in western colorado, u.s.a., to test the hypothesis that woodland age structures are shaped b ... | 2009 | 19688930 |