Flammability and combustibility of aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) stands;Zapaljivost i gorivost sastojina alepskoga bora (Pinus halepensis Mill.)

Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 121-129

  Španjol, Željko ^a   Rosavec, Roman ^a   Barčić, Damir ^a   Galić, Ivo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Aleppo pine; Combustibility; Inflammability; Moisture content

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; FUELS; IGNITION; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEGETATION;

ALEPPO PINES; CLIMATE FACTORS; FOREST FIRES; FOREST FUEL; FOREST VEGETATION; IGNITION DELAYS; MILL STANDS; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PINUS HALEPENSIS MILLS; VEGETATION ZONE;

NEEDLES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMBUSTION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEAD WOOD; ECOZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST FIRE; FUELWOOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MOISTURE CONTENT; PALEOGENE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUATERNARY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SILVICULTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WILDFIRE;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; FLAMMABILITY; FUELS; IGNITION; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTENT; PINUS BRUTIA; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CROATIA; RAB;

PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 80054938590     PISSN: 18455719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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