The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: Coupling fire into a dynamic global vegetation model

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 661-677

  Thonicke, K ^a   Venevsky, S ^a   Sitch, S ^a   Cramer, W ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Dynamic global vegetation model; Fire model; fire return intervals; Fire season; Plant functional types; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FIRE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0035176379     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2001.00175.x     Document Type: Article

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