Weather and human impacts on forest fires: 100 years of fire history in two climatic regions of Switzerland

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2188-2199

  Zumbrunnen, Thomas ^a,b   Pezzatti, Gianni B ^a   Menéndez, Patricia ^a,c   Bugmann, Harald ^b   Bürgi, Matthias ^a   Conedera, Marco ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alps; Climate; Disturbance; Fire history; Human impact; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ALPS; CLIMATE; DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; HUMAN IMPACT; SWITZERLAND;

AGRICULTURE; DEFORESTATION; FIREPROOFING; IGNITION; METEOROLOGY; ROADS AND STREETS;

FIRES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST COVER; FOREST FIRE; GLOBAL CHANGE; POPULATION DENSITY; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; FIRE PROOFING; FOREST FIRES; IGNITION; METEOROLOGY; ROADS; SWITZERLAND; WEATHER;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND; TICINO; VALAIS;

EID: 79955918530     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.10.009     Document Type: Article

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