Long-term impacts of prescribed burning on regional extent and incidence of wildfires-Evidence from 50 years of active fire management in SW Australian forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 132-142

  Boer, Matthias M ^a,b   Sadler, Rohan J ^b   Wittkuhn, Roy S ^a,c   McCaw, Lachlan ^a,c   Grierson, Pauline F ^a,b  

^a BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eucalypt forest; Fire intervals; Fire management; Forest fires; Fuel treatments; Relative risk mapping

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPT FOREST; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRES; FUEL TREATMENTS; RELATIVE RISKS;

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; DISASTERS; FUELS; MAPPING; RISK PERCEPTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

FIRES;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; LONGEVITY; MITIGATION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WILDFIRE;

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; DISASTERS; EUCALYPTUS; FIRES; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; FUELS; MAPPING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 71849106871     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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