Characterization of wildfire regimes in Canadian boreal terrestrial ecosystems

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 992-1002

  Jiang, Yueyang ^a   Zhuang, Qianlai ^a   Flannigan, Mike D ^b   Little, John M ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area statistics; Carbon dynamics; Ecozone; Fire management; Law frequency; Power; Recurrence interval.

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149119452     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF08096     Document Type: Article

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