Climate change-induced shifts in fire for Mediterranean ecosystems

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1118-1129

  Batllori, Enric ^a   Parisien, Marc André ^b   Krawchuk, Meg A ^c   Moritz, Max A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate uncertainty; Fire shifts; Fire climate relationship; Mediterranean biome; Productivity; Pyrogeography; Spatially explicit models; Warmer drier syndrome; Warmer wetter syndrome

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMBUSTION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FUEL; GLOBAL WARMING;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84883559874     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12065     Document Type: Article

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