Relationships between human population density and burned area at continental and global scales

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Bistinas, Ioannis ^a   Oom, Duarte ^a   Sá, Ana C L ^a   Harrison, Sandy P ^b,c   Prentice, I Colin ^b,d   Pereira, José M C ^a  

^a Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CROPLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EUROPE; FIRE ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAND BIOME; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; RANGELAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84892947136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081188     Document Type: Article

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