Fire regime changes in the Western Mediterranean Basin: From fuel-limited to drought-driven fire regime

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 215-226

  Pausas, Juli G ^a   Fernández Muñoz, Santiago ^b  

^a CDIS UV Generalitat Valenciana)   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC DATA; FIRE ACTIVITY; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE REGIMES; GLOBAL CHANGE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; INTEGRAL PART; MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM; RURAL POPULATION; TIME SERIES TECHNIQUES; VALENCIA; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FUELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; TIME SERIES;

FIRES;

CENSUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; GLOBAL CHANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RURAL POPULATION; TIME SERIES; WILDFIRE;

COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); SPAIN;

EID: 83055184539     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0060-6     Document Type: Article

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