Modeling Wildfire Incident Complexity Dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Thompson, Matthew P ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIRE; FIRE PROTECTION; FOGO SELVAGEM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INCIDENCE; INCIDENT COMPLEXITY DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; UNITED STATES;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; FIRES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84877778222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063297     Document Type: Article

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