Global and regional analysis of climate and human drivers of wildfire

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3472-3481

  Aldersley, Andrew ^a   Murray, Steven J ^a   Cornell, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic change; Burned area; Climate change; Global wildfire; Random forest method; Regression trees

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES; BURNED AREAS; GLOBAL WILDFIRE; RANDOM FOREST METHODS; REGRESSION TREES;

DECISION TREES; EARTH (PLANET); FIRES; PLANT EXTRACTS; REGIONAL PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FIRE; GRAZING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAND USE; LIGHTNING; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM FOREST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL FERTILITY; SOUTH AMERICA; TRAFFIC;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FIRES; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES; WILDERNESS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79959727705     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.05.032     Document Type: Article

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