Fire regimes of China: Inference from statistical comparison with the United States

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 626-639

  Krawchuk, Meg A ^a   Moritz, Max A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Climatic comparison; Conservation initiatives; Ecosystem process; Fire ecology; Fire regimes; LANDFIRE; Statistical distribution models; USA

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FIRE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND COVER; MODIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68549132614     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00472.x     Document Type: Article

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