Modeling the landscape drivers of fire recurrence in Sardinia (Italy)

Environmental Management

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1077-1084

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a   Di Vito, Stefania ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental niche factor analysis (ENFA); Fire recurrence; Human impact; Land use; Ordination biplot

Indexed keywords

IGNITION; LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ECOLOGICAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL NICHE FACTOR ANALYSIS (ENFA); HABITAT SUITABILITY MODEL; HUMAN IMPACT; LANDSCAPE DEGRADATION; ORDINATION BIPLOT; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

FIRES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE; NICHE; ORDINATION; RETURN PERIOD; WILDFIRE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALTITUDE; DEGRADATION; FIRE; FOREST; HABITAT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ITALY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SCRUB; URBAN AREA;

ITALY; SARDINIA;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; ITALY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TREES;

EID: 84902286433     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0269-z     Document Type: Review

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