Scale effects of vegetation and topography on burn severity under prevailing fire weather conditions in boreal forest landscapes of Northeastern China

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 60-70

  Wu, Zhiwei ^a   He, Hong S ^a,b   Bobryk, Christopher W ^b   Liang, Yu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

boreal forest landscape; burn severity; grain size; NDVI; topography; vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895070921     PISSN: 02827581     EISSN: 16511891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02827581.2013.861922     Document Type: Article

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