A method for regional-scale assessment of vegetation recovery time after high-severity wildfires: Case study of Spain

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 556-575

  Rodrigues, Marcos ^a   Ibarra, Paloma ^a   Echeverría, Maite ^a   Pérez Cabello, Fernando ^a   Riva, Juan de la ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

GIS; plant communities; recovery time; wildfire

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; GIS; GRASSLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; TREE; VEGETATION MAPPING; WATER AVAILABILITY; WILDFIRE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SIBERIA;

EID: 84910084226     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: 14770296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133314542956     Document Type: Article

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