Factors influencing national scale wildfire susceptibility in Canada

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 265, Issue , 2012, Pages 20-29

  Gralewicz, Nicholas J ^a   Nelson, Trisalyn A ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic influence; Burn susceptibility; Forest fragmentation; Landscape pattern; Regeneration; Spatial temporal pattern of wildfire

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; FOREST FRAGMENTATIONS; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; REGENERATION; SPATIAL TEMPORALS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION TREES; FIRES;

REFORESTATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASELINE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION ANALYSIS; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST COVER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; REGENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

CANADA;

EID: 81255163745     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.10.031     Document Type: Article

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