Resistance of the boreal forest to high burn rates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 13888-13893

  Héon, Jessie ^a   Arseneault, Dominique ^a   Parisien, Marc André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fire free intervals; Fuel feedback; Probability of burning; Tree ring dating

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

FIRE; FOREST; METABOLISM; NORTH AMERICA;

CARBON; FIRES; FORESTS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84907215686     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1409316111     Document Type: Article

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