Relationship between fire, climate oscillations, and drought in British Columbia, Canada, 1920-2000

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 977-989

  Meyn, Andrea ^a   Taylor, Stephen W ^b   Flannigan, Mike D ^c   Thonicke, Kirsten ^a   Cramer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area burned; Aridity index; Canada; ENSO; PDO; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; WILDFIRE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 77149121746     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02061.x     Document Type: Article

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