Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 6442-6447

  Archibald, Sally ^a,b   Lehmann, Caroline E R ^c   Gómez Dans, Jose L ^d   Bradstock, Ross A ^e  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOME; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIRE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASS; HUMAN; PLANT LITTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROME; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREE CROWN; VEGETATION;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOTA; CLIMATE; FIRES; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN;

EID: 84876257210     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211466110     Document Type: Article

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