Fuel shapes the fire-climate relationship: Evidence from Mediterranean ecosystems

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1074-1082

  Pausas, Juli G ^a   Paula, Susana ^b,c  

^a CDIS UV Generalitat Valenciana)   (Spain)

^b FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Climate; Fire regime; Flammability; Iberian Peninsula; Landscape structure; Productivity gradient

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; FIRE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84867631520     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00769.x     Document Type: Article

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