First-order fire effects models for land management: Overview and issues

Fire Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 131-142

  Reinhardt, Elizabeth D ^a   Dickinson, Matthew B ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Northern Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical models; First order fire effects; Land management applications; Process models; Rule based models

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954234614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19339747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.0601131     Document Type: Article

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