Landscape influences on occurrence and spread of wildfires in patagonian forests and shrublands

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2705-2715

  Mermoz, Mónica ^a   Kitzberger, Thomas ^b   Veblen, Thomas T ^c  

^a Parques Nacionales de Argentina   (Argentina)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire ecology; Landscape ecology; Logistic regression model; Nothofagus; Patagonia; Shrub resprouting; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION TYPE; WILDFIRE;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

NOTHOFAGUS; NOTHOFAGUS DOMBEYI; NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO;

EID: 26044470415     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1850     Document Type: Article

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