Causasilty among wildfire, ENSO, timber harvest, and urban sprawl: The vector autoregression approach

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 304-314

  Gan, Jianbang ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Granger causality; Impulse response function; Vector autoregression; Wildfire activity; Wildfire mitigation

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION (VAR); WILDFIRE;

TIMBER;

FIRE MANAGEMENT; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TIMBER HARVESTING; URBANIZATION; WILDFIRE;

FORESTS; HARVESTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 28544448714     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.05.013     Document Type: Article

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