Fire regimes, fire ecology, and fire management in Mexico

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 548-556

  Rodríguez Trejo, Dante Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA CHAPINGO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SHRUBLAND; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

ABIES;

EID: 59049102632     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-37.7.548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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66. Acknowledgments: Thanks are due to CONAFOR and the UACH for authorizing the use of part of the materials written by the author for the UACH-CONAFOR's; Diagnóstico. Estrategia Nacional de Preventión y Combate de Incendios Forestales y Manejo Integral del Fuego (UACH-CONAFOR. 2006. Diagnosis. National Strategy. Fire-prevention, fire-fighting, and fire management. Unpublished. In Spanish).