Comparing fuel reduction treatments for reducing wildfire size and intensity in a boreal forest landscape of northeastern China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 454-455, Issue , 2013, Pages 30-39

  Wu, Zhiwei ^a   He, Hong S ^a,b   Liu, Zhihua ^a   Liang, Yu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn probability; FARSITE; Fire intensity; Fire size; Fuel load; Fuel treatment

Indexed keywords

BURN PROBABILITIES; FARSITE; FIRE INTENSITY; FIRE SIZE; FUEL LOADS; FUEL TREATMENTS;

FIRES; FORESTRY; IGNITION; PROBABILITY;

FUELS;

FUEL;

BOREAL FOREST; BURNING; FOREST FIRE; FUEL CONSUMPTION; PROBABILITY; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRE; FOGO SELVAGEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HISTORY; LANDSCAPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; TAIGA; VALIDATION STUDY;

FOREST FIRES; FUELS; IGNITION; PROBABILITY;

CHINA;

EID: 84875799497     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.02.058     Document Type: Article

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