Characterizing temporal changes in forest fire ignitions: Looking for climate change signals in a region of the Canadian boreal forest

Environmetrics

Volumn 21, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 789-800

  Woolford, Douglas G ^a   Cao, Jiguo ^a   Dean, Charmaine B ^b   Martell, David L ^c  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Entropy score; Generalized additive mixed model; Nonparametric smoothing; Wildfire ignitions

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENTROPY; FOREST FIRE; LIGHTNING; RISK FACTOR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 78650674027     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.1067     Document Type: Article

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