Climate change and forest fires

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 221-229

  Flannigan, M D ^a   Stocks, B J ^a   Wotton, B M ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forest fires; Forests; General circulation models

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING METHOD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMIDITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CLIMATE; FIRES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; TREES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034670145     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00524-6     Document Type: Article

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