Lightning strikes and resultant fires from archival (1912-1917) and current (1960-1997) information in Pennsylvania

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 249-252

  Ruffner, C M ^a   Abrams, M D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archival data; Forest fires; Lightning strikes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031854916     PISSN: 10955674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2997223     Document Type: Article

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