Modelling the ecological vulnerability to forest fires in mediterranean ecosystems using geographic information technologies

Environmental Management

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1012-1026

  Duguy, Beatriz ^a   Alloza, José Antonio ^b   Baeza, M Jaime ^b   De La Riva, Juan ^c   Echeverría, Maite ^c   Ibarra, Paloma ^c   Llovet, Juan ^b   Cabello, Fernando Pérez ^c   Rovira, Pere ^d   Vallejo, Ramon V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecological models; Geographic information Technologies; Mediterranean ecosystems; Vulnerability to fire

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; ECOLOGICAL VULNERABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES; FIRE PREVENTION; FOREST FIRES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; LANDSCAPE LEVEL; MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PINE FOREST; REGIONAL SCALE; SHRUBLANDS; SOIL DEGRADATION; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; STUDY SITES; VALENCIA; VEGETATION TYPE;

DEFORESTATION; FIREPROOFING; FIRES; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST FIRE; GIS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION TYPE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOLOGICAL VULNERABILITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FIRE; FOREST; FOREST FIRE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LANDSCAPE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROPERTY; SPAIN; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TREES;

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORECASTS; FOREST FIRES; GIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDITERRANEAN; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84871343015     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9933-3     Document Type: Article

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