How Fire History, Fire Suppression Practices and Climate Change Affect Wildfire Regimes in Mediterranean Landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Brotons, Lluís ^a,b   Aquilué, Núria ^a,b   de Cáceres, Miquel ^a,b   Fortin, Marie Josée ^c   Fall, Andrew ^d  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FIRE HISTORY; FIRE PROTECTION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; SIMULATION; SPAIN; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FIREFIGHTERS; FIRES; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84877085999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062392     Document Type: Article

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