Reconstructing past fire regimes: methods, applications, and relevance to fire management and conservation

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 555-576

  Conedera, Marco ^a,b   Tinner, Willy ^c   Neff, Christophe ^b   Meurer, Manfred ^b   Dickens, Angela F ^d   Krebs, Patrik ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS-BURNING; COMBINED ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; FIRE DYNAMICS; FIRE ECOLOGIES; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENTS; FIRE REGIMES; FOREST MANAGEMENTS; KEY FACTORS; PRESENT STATUS; SPATIAL SCALE; VEGETATION CHANGES;

FIRES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS BURNING; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES; PLANTS; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; RENEWABLE RESOURCES;

EID: 59649097590     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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