Wildfire risk for main vegetation units in a biodiversity hotspot: Modeling approach in New Caledonia, South Pacific

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 377-390

  Gomez, Céline ^a   Mangeas, Morgan ^a   Curt, Thomas ^b   Ibanez, Thomas ^c   Munzinger, Jérôme ^a,d   Dumas, Pascal ^e   Jérémy, André ^a   Despinoy, Marc ^a   Hély, Christelle ^f  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b UR EMAX   (France)

^c Institut Agronomique Neo Caledonien IAC   (New Caledonia)

^d UMR AMAP   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LA NOUVELLE CALÉDONIE   (New Caledonia)

^f PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity loss; Burn probability; Fire impact; FLAMMAP; NEW Caledonia; Spatially explicit modeling; Wildfire risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921434471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1317     Document Type: Article

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