Fire, humans and landscape in the European Alpine region during the Holocene

Anthropocene

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 63-74

  Valese, E ^a   Conedera, M ^b   Held, A C ^c   Ascoli, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c European Forest Institute Central Regional Office (EFICENT)   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpine region; European; Fire epoch; Fire generation; Fire history; Fire regime; Landscape

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; PALEOCLIMATE; WILDFIRE;

ALPS;

EID: 84916935302     PISSN: 22133054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ancene.2014.06.006     Document Type: Article

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