A 400-year history of fires on lake islands in south-east Sweden

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1050-1058

  Niklasson, Mats ^a   Drobyshev, Igor ^a,b   Zielonka, Tomasz ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^c POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

dendrochronology; disturbance regime; disturbance theory; Fennoscandia; forest fire; land use history; lightning ignition; Scots pine.

Indexed keywords

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 78650256204     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF09117     Document Type: Article

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