Potential impacts of climate change on fire regimes in the tropics based on MAGICC and a GISS GCM-derived lightning model

Climatic Change

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 273-296

  Goldammer, Johann Georg ^a   Price, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fire regime; Fire scenarios; Tropical vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FIRE; LIGHTNING; PLANT COMMUNITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0031853533     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005371923658     Document Type: Review

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