Environmental and human factors influencing fire trends in ENSO and non-ENSO years in tropical Mexico

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1177-1192

  Román Cuesta, Rosa Maria ^a   Gracia, Marc ^a   Retana, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Causal relations; Chiapas, Mexico; El Ni o; Fire distribution; Fire incidence; Human related variables; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIRE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHIAPAS;

BOS TAURUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 0346269104     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2003)13[1177:EAHFIF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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