Broad-scale environmental conditions responsible for post-fire vegetation dynamics

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2643-2664

  Casady, Grant M ^a   Marsh, Stuart E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

AVHRR; CART; Climate change; Disturbance; NDVI; Time series; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; CART; DISTURBANCE; NDVI; WILDFIRE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

EID: 80051861249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2122643     Document Type: Article

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