Spatial patterns and drivers of fire occurrence and its future trend under climate change in a boreal forest of Northeast China

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2041-2056

  Liu, Zhihua ^a   Yang, Jian ^a   Chang, Yu ^a   Weisberg, Peter J ^b   He, Hong S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Climate change; Fire; Northeast China; Spatial point pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; FOREST FIRE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHINA;

EID: 84862806785     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02649.x     Document Type: Article

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