Predicting spatio-temporal variability in fire return intervals using a topographic roughness index

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 463-473

  Stambaugh, Michael C ^a   Guyette, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fire history; GIS; Landscape; Mean fire return interval; Missouri; Model; Ozark highlands; Surface measures; Topographic roughness index

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

MEAN FIRE RETURN INTERVAL; POPULATION DENSITY; TOPOGRAPHIC ROUGHNESS INDEX;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MODELING; PREDICTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; GIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA; OZARK MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38349090009     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.08.029     Document Type: Article

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