Assessment of biomass burning in the conterminous United States

Ecology and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Leenhouts, Bill ^a,b  

^a U S Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^b National Interagency Fire Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Biomass burning; Climate change; Conterminous United States; Emission estimates; Fire regimes; Pre industrial conditions; Prescribed burning; Wildland fire

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002738661     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00035-020101     Document Type: Article

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