Recent changes in the fire regime across the North American boreal region - Spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and Alaska

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Kasischke, Eric S ^a   Turetsky, Merritt R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; GLOBAL WARMING; HISTORY; STATISTICS;

CLIMATE WARMING; FIRE REGIME; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL PATTERNS;

GEOPHYSICS;

BOREAL FOREST; BURNING; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745685097     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025677     Document Type: Article

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