Novel nomographs for fire behaviour prediction in Mediterranean and submediterranean vegetation types

Forestry

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 479-490

  Dimitrakopoulos, A P ^a   Dritsa, S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; LITTER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SHRUBLAND;

KERMES; QUERCUS;

EID: 0347900758     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/76.5.479     Document Type: Article

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