Linking forest fire regimes and climate - A historical analysis in a dry inner Alpine valley

Ecosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-86

  Zumbrunnen, Thomas ^a,b   Bugmann, Harald ^b   Conedera, Marco ^a   Bürgi, Matthias ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central Alps; Climate; Continentality; Documentary evidence; Fire history; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; FIRE HISTORY; FOEHN; FOREST FIRE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VALLEY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; VALAIS;

EID: 58849148286     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9207-3     Document Type: Article

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