Fire intensity and severity in Brazilian Campos grasslands

Interciencia

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 739-745

  Fidelis, Alessandra ^a,b   Delgado Cartay, Maria Dolores ^c,d   Blanco, Carolina C ^e   Müller, Sandra C ^f,g   Pillar, Valério D ^e,g,h   Pfadenhauer, Jörg ^b,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PASSO FUNDO   (Brazil)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fire; Fire temperatures; Fuel load; Southern Brazil; Subtropical grasslands

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951740797     PISSN: 03781844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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