Wildland fire patch dynamics in the chaparral of southern California and northern Baja California

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 221-248

  Minnich, Richard A ^a   Chou, Yue Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Baja California; California; Chaparral; Fire suppression; Fire weather; Lightning; Patch dynamics; Time dependent fire regimes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031505570     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF9970221     Document Type: Article

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