The amplifying effects of humans on fire regimes in temperate rainforests in western Patagonia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 311, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 82-92

  Holz, Andrés ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Burning; Climate variability; Global warming; Human ignition; Land use changes; Logging; Patagonia; Pilgerodendron uviferum

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS BURNING; BOG; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECADAL VARIATION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); PALEOECOLOGY; RAINFOREST; RECONSTRUCTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WILDFIRE;

PATAGONIA;

PILGERODENDRON UVIFERUM;

EID: 80055102338     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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