Evaluating post-fire forest resilience using GIS and multi-criteria analysis: An example from Cape Sounion National Park, Greece

Environmental Management

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 384-397

  Arianoutsou, Margarita ^a   Koukoulas, Sotirios ^b   Kazanis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

GIS; Multi criteria evaluation; Pinus halepensis forests; Post fire resilience

Indexed keywords

BIO-INDICATORS; ECOLOGICAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE PREVENTION; FOREST FIRES; GIS; HOTSPOTS; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION; MULTICRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT; MULTICRITERIA RULE; NATIONAL PARKS; PARENT MATERIALS; PINUS HALEPENSIS FORESTS; POST-FIRE; POST-FIRE RESILIENCE; RISK INDICES; SLOPE INCLINATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; FIREPROOFING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PARKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FIRES;

LIMESTONE;

BIOINDICATOR; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; GIS; LANDSCAPE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM FIRE HISTORY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FIRE; FIRE FREQUENCY; FOREST; FOREST FIRE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GREECE; LANDSCAPE; LEGUME; LEGUME COVER; NATURAL DISASTER; PILOT STUDY; PINE; PLANT DENSITY; ROCK; SLOPE INCLINATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION; WOODY COVER;

ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GREECE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TREES;

DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; GIS; PINUS HALEPENSIS; SENSITIVITY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 79954446987     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-011-9614-7     Document Type: Article

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