Regional partitioning for wildfire regime characterization

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Fiorucci, Paolo ^a   Gaetani, Francesco ^a   Minciardi, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOREGION; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; WILDFIRE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LIGURIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 50849110561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000771     Document Type: Article

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