Climate and land-use effects on wildfire in northern Mexico, 1650-2010

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 325, Issue , 2014, Pages 49-59

  Meunier, Jed ^a   Romme, William H ^a   Brown, Peter M ^b  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Fire history; Fuels; Interannual climate; Mexico; Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; FUELING; FUELS; LAND USE;

CLIMATE; FIRE HISTORY; INTERANNUAL; ME-XICO; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES;

FIRES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DROUGHT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOCLIMATE; RELICT SPECIES; WILDFIRE;

CLIMATES; DROUGHT; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; FUELS; LAND USE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SIERRA DE SAN LUIS [SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL]; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL; SIERRA MADRE [MEXICO];

EID: 84899060318     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.03.048     Document Type: Article

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