Habitat distribution modeling reveals vegetation flammability and land use as drivers of wildfire in SW Patagonia

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Paritsis, Juan ^a,b   Holz, Andres ^a,c   Veblen, Thomas T ^a   Kitzberger, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human ignition; Landsat; MaxEnt; Nothofagus; Shrubland; Spatial fire prediction; Vegetation flammability; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900449794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES12-00378.1     Document Type: Article

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