Potential effect of climate change on observed fire regimes in the Cordilleran forests of South-Central Interior, British Columbia

Climatic Change

Volumn 116, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 579-591

  Nitschke, Craig R ^a,b   Innes, John L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FORESTRY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CONSERVATION TARGETS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FIRE INTERVALS; LANDSCAPE LEVEL; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; SOUTH-CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; LANDSCAPE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RISK FACTOR;

CLIMATES; FIRES; FORESTRY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84872665257     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0522-5     Document Type: Article

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