Modeling wildfire spread in mountain pine beetle-affected forest stands, British Columbia, Canada

Fire Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 10-35

  Perrakis, Daniel D B ^a   Lanoville, Rick A ^b   Taylor, Stephen W ^c   Hicks, Dana ^a  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological restoration; Fire behavior; Fire suppression; Forest health; Pine bark beetle; Rate of spread; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; NONLINEARITY; PEST OUTBREAK; PHOTOGRAPH; WILDFIRE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84904437566     PISSN: 19339747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4996/fireecology.1002010     Document Type: Article

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