Evidence of selective burning in Sardinia (Italy): Which land-cover classes do wildfires prefer?

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 241-248

  Bajocco, Sofia ^a   Ricotta, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fire number; Fire selectivity; Fuel fragmentation; Landscape analysis; Mean fire size; Permutation methods

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; LAND COVER; SHRUBLAND; WILDFIRE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SARDINIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38649127927     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9176-5     Document Type: Article

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