Modelling post-fire vegetation recovery in Portugal

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3593-3607

  Bastos, A ^a   Gouveia, C M ^a,b   Dacamara, C C ^a   Trigo, R M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE SETÚBAL   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NDVI; REGENERATION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EROSION CONTROL; NUMERICAL MODEL; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 83655196996     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-3593-2011     Document Type: Article

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