Sensitivity of Portuguese forest fires to climatic, human, and landscape variables: Subnational differences between fire drivers in extreme fire years and decadal averages

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 543-551

  Costa, Luís ^a   Thonicke, Kirsten ^a   Poulter, Benjamin ^b   Badeck, F ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate; Fire drivers; Portugal; Socioeconomic; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051936968     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0169-6     Document Type: Article

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