Numbers and sizes of fires: Long-term spatially explicit fire history in a Swedish boreal landscape

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1484-1499

  Niklasson, Mats ^a,b   Granström, Anders ^b  

^a S Swedish Forest Research Centre   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic fires; Boreal landscape; Dendrochronology; Fire frequency; Fire history; Fire regime; Fire size; Landscape ecology; Pinus sylvestris; Spatially explicit; Swedish boreal forest

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FIRE HISTORY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

SWEDEN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 0033923324     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1484:NASOFL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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