Spatiotemporal Variations of Fire Frequency in Central Boreal Forest

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1227-1238

  Senici, Dominic ^a   Chen, Han Y H ^a   Bergeron, Yves ^b   Cyr, Dominic ^c  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

boreal forest; distance to fire breaks; fire frequency; latitude; soil order; survival analysis; temporal pattern; time since fire

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; FRAGMENTATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIXED FOREST; PALEOECOLOGY; PODZOL; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; WILDFIRE;

BOREAL SHIELD; CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 78249239173     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9383-9     Document Type: Article

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