A second-order impact model for forest fire regimes

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 174-182

  Maggi, Stefano ^a   Rinaldi, Sergio ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Boreal forests; Chaos; Forest fires; Impact models; Mediterranean forests; Savannas

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; FOREST FIRE; IMPACT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MIMICRY; MODEL; SAVANNA; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; FIRE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE;

ECOLOGY; FIRES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TREES;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 33746536797     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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