Historic and current fire regimes in the Great Xing'an Mountains, northeastern China: Implications for long-term forest management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 445-453

  Chang, Yu ^a   He, Hong S ^a,b   Hu, Yuanman ^a   Bu, Rencang ^a   Li, Xiuzhen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire characteristics; Fire patterns; Fire regimes; LANDIS; Northeastern China

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRES; REVEGETATION;

FIRE INTENSITY; FIRE PATTERNS; FIRE REGIMES; LANDIS; NORTHEASTERN CHINA;

FORESTRY;

FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MODELING; MOUNTAIN; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

CHINA; FIRES; FORESTRY; SIMULATION;

ASIA; CHINA; DA HINGGAN MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 38349084054     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.04.050     Document Type: Article

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