Contributions of Ignitions, Fuels, and Weather to the Spatial Patterns of Burn Probability of a Boreal Landscape

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1141-1155

  Parisien, Marc André ^a,b   Parks, Sean A ^c   Miller, Carol ^c   Krawchuk, Meg A ^d   Heathcott, Mark ^e   Moritz, Max A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c USDA Forest Service Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Burn probability; Fire; Fuels; Ignitions; Simulation modeling; Structural equation modeling; Weather

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; BURNING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL FUEL; HOMOGENEITY; LAND COVER; MAP; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WEATHER;

CANADA; WOOD BUFFALO NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 80855123661     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9474-2     Document Type: Article

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