The Canadian fire weather index system and wildfire activity in the Karst forest management area, Slovenia

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 829-834

  Šturm, Tomaž ^a   Fernandes, Paulo M ^b   Šumrada, Radoš ^c  

^a Slovenia Forest Service   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Fire activity; Fire danger rating; Fire management

Indexed keywords

FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; KARST; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

EUROPE; SLOVENIA;

EID: 84859490583     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-011-0556-7     Document Type: Article

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