Evaluating Post-wildfire Vegetation Regeneration as a Response to Multiple Environmental Determinants

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 295-307

  Casady, Grant M ^a   van Leeuwen, Willem J D ^a   Marsh, Stuart E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

EVI; MODIS; Regression trees; Time series; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; TIME SERIES; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VEGETATION;

ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; MODIS; POST FIRE REGENERATION; REGRESSION TREES; VEGETATION REGENERATION; WILDFIRE;

REFORESTATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; REGENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDFIRE;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051748651     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-009-9210-x     Document Type: Article

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