Theoretical fire-interval distributions

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 73-77

  McCarthy, Michael A ^a,b,c   Gill, A Malcolm ^d   Bradstock, Ross A ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e Biodiv Survey and Research Division   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire regimes; Models; Probability distribution; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035609639     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF01013     Document Type: Article

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