Emulating natural disturbances as a forest management goal: Lessons from fire regime simulations

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1328-1337

  Perera, Ajith H ^a   Cui, Wenbin ^a  

^a ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

BFOLDS; Boreal fire regime; Fire regime modeling; Fire size distribution; Ontario; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; BURN RATES; EMPIRICAL DATA; FIRE EVENT; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE REGIMES; FIRE SIZE; FIRE WEATHER; FOREST FIRES; FOREST HARVEST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST POLICY; FOREST SUSTAINABILITY; HARVEST RATES; MANAGEMENT POLICY; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; NATURAL FORESTS; ONTARIO; ONTARIO , CANADA; POWER LAW; SCENARIO SIMULATIONS; SIMULATED FIRE; SIMULATION MODELING; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; STOCHASTICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORESTATION; HARVESTING; SIZE DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

FIRES;

BOREAL FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; SUSTAINABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

DEFORESTATION; FIRES; HARVESTING; SIMULATION;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 76449112774     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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