Management alternatives to offset climate change effects on Mediterranean fire regimes in NE Spain

Climatic Change

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 693-707

  Loepfe, Lasse ^a   Martinez Vilalta, Jordi ^a   Piñol, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; BURNED AREAS; FIRE BRIGADE; FIRE PREVENTION; FIRE PRONE; FIRE REGIMES; FIRE SUPPRESSION; FIRE WEATHER; FOREST AREA; FUEL ACCUMULATION; FUEL REDUCTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; IGNITION FREQUENCY; LAND-USE MANAGEMENT; LOCAL MANAGEMENT; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FIREPROOFING; FUELS; METEOROLOGY;

FIRES;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUMIDITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

SPAIN;

EID: 84868675309     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0488-3     Document Type: Article

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