Predicting Fire Frequency with Chemistry and Climate

Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 322-335

  Guyette, Richard P ^a   Stambaugh, Michael C ^a   Dey, Daniel C ^b   Muzika, Rose Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Northern Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; dendrochronology; fire frequency; North America; physical chemistry

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84857786037     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9512-0     Document Type: Article

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