Influence of peatland and land cover distribution on fire regimes in insular Southeast Asia

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 191-201

  Miettinen, Jukka ^a   Shi, Chenghua ^a   Liew, Soo Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Active fire detection; Biomass burning; Hotspots; Vegetation fires

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952037063     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0131-7     Document Type: Article

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