Empirical models of forest fire initial attack success probabilities: The effects of fuels, anthropogenic linear features, fire weather, and management

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3155-3166

  Arienti, M Cecilia ^a   Cumming, Steven G ^b   Boutin, Stan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LIGHTNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONTAINMENT FAILURE PROBABILITY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FIRE WEATHER; FOREST FUELS;

FIRE HAZARDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION;

FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; LIGHTNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 34249879239     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-188     Document Type: Article

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