Environmental controls on the distribution of wildfire at multiple spatial scales

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-154

  Parisien, Marc André ^a,b   Moritz, Max A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

boosted regression trees; Disturbance ecology; Environmental space; Fire regime controls; Habitat distribution models; Maxent algorithm; Spatial fire prediction; Wildfire.

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOME; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WILDFIRE;

EID: 65249142819     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1289.1     Document Type: Article

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