Disturbance history affects lightning fire initiation in the mixedwood boreal forest: Observations and simulations

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1613-1622

  Krawchuk, Meg A ^a   Cumming, Steve G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compound disturbance; Harvesting; Initiation; Lightning fire; Mixedwood boreal forest; Weather

Indexed keywords

COMPOUND DISTURBANCE; FIRE INITIATIONS; FIRE WEATHERS; FOREST HARVESTING; HARVEST MANAGEMENTS; HARVESTED STANDS; HARVESTING ACTIVITIES; INITIATION; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; MIXEDWOOD BOREAL FOREST; NATURAL DISTURBANCES; SIMULATION MODELS; WEATHER;

FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LIGHTNING;

FIRES;

BOREAL FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; FORESTRY MODELING; HARVESTING; LIGHTNING; MIXED FOREST; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION;

FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; INITIATION; LIGHTNING; WEATHER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 61449235219     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.01.019     Document Type: Article

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