An integrative model of human-influenced fire regimes and landscape dynamics

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1028-1040

  Loepfe, Lasse ^a   Martinez Vilalta, Jordi ^a   Piñol, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fire regime; Fire suppression; Fire weather; Land use change; Landscape dynamics; Model; Vegetation growth

Indexed keywords

FIRE REGIMES; FIRE SUPPRESSION; FIRE WEATHER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; VEGETATION GROWTH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; LAND USE; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

FIRES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PHYTOMASS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER CONTENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SPAIN;

EID: 79954724917     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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