Environmental determinants of lightning- v. human-induced forest fire ignitions differ in a temperate mountain region of Switzerland

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 541-557

  Reineking, Björn ^a,b   Weibel, Patrick ^a   Conedera, Marco ^c   Bugmann, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

fire weather; forest composition; human influence; logistic regression; Ticino

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955615951     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF08206     Document Type: Article

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