Fire regime changes and major driving forces in Spain from 1968 to 2010

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 11-22

  Moreno, M Vanesa ^a   Conedera, Marco ^b   Chuvieco, Emilio ^a   Pezzatti, Gianni Boris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fire ecology; Fire management; Land use change; Pettitt test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894235314     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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