Disturbance, geomorphic processes and recovery of wildfire slopes in North Tyrol

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 883-894

  Sass, Oliver ^a,d   Heel, Michael ^b   Leistner, Iris ^c,d   Stöger, Florence ^c,d   Wetzel, Karl Friedrich ^b   Friedmann, Arne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c Geo and Atmospheric Sciences   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austrian Alps; Ecosystem disturbance; Erosion; Vegetation regeneration; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

AFFECTED AREA; AUSTRIAN ALPS; DEBRIS FLOWS; ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCE; FIRE INTERVALS; GEOMORPHIC PROCESS; HISTORICAL ARCHIVE; LONG LASTING; MAPPING VEGETATIONS; NATURAL HAZARD; POST-FIRE; RAPID REGENERATION; RE-COLONIZATION; RESEARCH APPROACH; ROCKY SLOPES; SOIL EROSION; SOIL LOSS; STUDY AREAS; SUB-ALPINE; VEGETATION REGENERATION; WILDFIRE;

DEBRIS; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; RECOVERY; SOILS; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; SLOPE; SOIL EROSION; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRIA; TYROL;

EID: 84862639155     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3221     Document Type: Article

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