Fire return intervals within the northern boundary of the larch forest in Central Siberia

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 207-211

  Kharuk, Vyacheslav I ^a   Dvinskaya, Mariya L ^a   Ranson, K Jon ^b  

^a SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Larix gmelinii; wildfires

Indexed keywords

LARIX; LARIX GMELINII;

EID: 84875443227     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF11181     Document Type: Article

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