Mapping the probability of large fire occurrence in northern Arizona, USA

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 747-761

  Dickson, Brett G ^a,b   Prather, John W ^c   Xu, Yaguang ^c   Hampton, Haydee M ^c   Aumack, Ethan N ^c   Sisk, Thomas D ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire risk; Lightning; Ponderosa pine; Topographic roughness; Weights of evidence; Wildland fire

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATABASE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FOREST FIRE; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LIGHTNING; MAPPING; WILDFIRE;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 33746164335     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-005-5475-x     Document Type: Article

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