Fire in African savanna: Testing the impact of incomplete combustion on pyrogenic emissions estimates

Ecological Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1074-1082

  Smith, Alistair M S ^a   Wooster, Martin J ^a   Drake, Nick A ^a   Dipotso, Frederick M ^b   Perry, George L W ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Box 17 ^*  (Botswana)

Author keywords

Biomass burning and global climate change; Botswana; Combustion in natural fires; Global emission budgets; Loss on ignition (LOI); N and C emissions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIRE; SAVANNA;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WORLD;

EID: 20444421879     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-5256     Document Type: Article

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