Assessing possible shifts in wildfire regimes under a changing climate in mountainous landscapes

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 310, Issue , 2013, Pages 875-886

  Mori, Akira S ^a,b   Johnson, Edward A ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecosystem based management; Extreme drought; Future climate and fire scenarios; Natural disturbance; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT; FIRE SCENARIOS; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODELING; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; WILDFIRE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

FIRES;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EXTREME EVENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; LIGHTNING; MOUNTAIN REGION; WILDFIRE;

DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; PROBABILITY;

COLUMBIA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84888136425     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.09.036     Document Type: Article

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