Where did the fires burn in Peloponnisos, Greece the summer of 2007? Evidence for a synergy of fuel and weather

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 156, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-53

  Koutsias, Nikos ^a   Arianoutsou, Margarita ^b   Kallimanis, Athanasios S ^a   Mallinis, Giorgos ^c   Halley, John M ^a   Dimopoulos, Panayotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climatic conditions; Land abandonment; Monte Carlo test; Multi response permutation procedure (MRPP); Peloponnese, Mediterranean Basin; Severe wildfires

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CULTIVATION; LAND COVER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NATURAL DISASTER; PLANT COMMUNITY; SYNERGISM; WEATHER MODIFICATION; WILDFIRE; WOODLAND;

GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PELOPONNESE;

EID: 84856043583     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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