Modelling fire frequency in a Cerrado savanna protected area

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Pereira Jr , Alfredo C ^a   Oliveira, Sofia L J ^b   Pereira, José M C ^b   Turkman, Maria Antońia Amaral ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; SAVANNA; SHRUB; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TREE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GEOGRAPHY; GRASSLAND; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84904600745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102380     Document Type: Article

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