History of forest fires in eastern Finland from the fifteenth century AD - The possible effects of slash-and-burn cultivation

Holocene

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 223-228

  Lehtonen, Hannu ^a   Huttunen, Pertti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Dendrochronology; Finland; Fire frequency; Fire history; Return interval; Slash and burn cultivation

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BOREAL FOREST; DENDOCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIFTEENTH CENTURY; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; HISTORICAL STUDY; SLASH AND BURN; SWIDDEN AGRICULTURE;

FINLAND, AHVENJARVI; FINLAND, KITSI;

EID: 0030618153     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095968369700700210     Document Type: Article

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