The potential and realized spread of wildfires across Canada

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2518-2530

  Wang, Xianli ^a   Parisien, Marc André ^b   Flannigan, Mike D ^a,b   Parks, Sean A ^c   Anderson, Kerry R ^b   Little, John M ^b   Taylor, Steve W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forests; Canada; Fire spread; MODIS fire detections; Temperate forests; Weather

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE EFFECT; DETECTION METHOD; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; MODIS; PREDICTION; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATE FOREST; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

CANADA;

CANADA; FIRE; FOREST; REMOTE SENSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEATHER;

CANADA; FIRES; FORESTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; WEATHER;

EID: 84903745834     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12590     Document Type: Article

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