Influence of man on forest fire frequency in North Karelia, Finland, as evidenced by fire scars on scots pines

Annales Botanici Fennici

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 257-263

  Lehtonen, Hannu ^a   Huttunen, Pertti ^a   Zetterberg, Pentti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

boreal forest; dendrochronology; fire history; fire interval; slash and burn cultivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030497663     PISSN: 00033847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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