Using unplanned fires to help suppressing future large fires in mediterranean forests

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Regos, Adrián ^a,b   Aquilué, Núria ^a,b   Retana, Javier ^b,c   De Cáceres, Miquel ^a,b   Brotons, Lluís ^a,b  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRE ECOLOGY; FIRE PROTECTION; FOREST; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STRATEGIC PLANNING; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; GEOGRAPHY; SPAIN; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEATHER;

CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FIRES; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPAIN; WEATHER;

EID: 84899625667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094906     Document Type: Article

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