Estimation of temporal variations in historical fire frequency from time-since-fire map data

Forest Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 465-475

  Reed, W J ^a   Larsen, C P S ^b   Johnson, E A ^c   MacDonald, G M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Change points; Dendrochronology; Disturbance; Fire frequency; Fire history; Hazard of burning; Quasi likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031668510     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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