Analyzing extreme disturbance events: Fire in Los Padres National Forest

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1252-1262

  Moritz, Max A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Disturbance; Extremal fire regime; Fire size; Landscape ecology; Los Padres National Forest; Statistics of extremes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000963820     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[1252:AEDEFI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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