Climate and wildfires in the North American boreal forest

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1501, 2008, Pages 2317-2327

  Macias Fauria, Marc ^a,b,c   Johnson, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alaska; Arctic Oscillation; Area burned by wildfire; Canada; Climate change; Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LITTLE ICE AGE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION; WILDFIRE;

ALASKA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449139035     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2202     Document Type: Review

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