Defining fire environment zones in the boreal forests of northeastern China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 518-519, Issue , 2015, Pages 106-116

  Wu, Zhiwei ^a   He, Hong S ^b,c   Yang, Jian ^a   Liang, Yu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Environmental variables; Fire management; Fire regime; Spatial clustering

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY;

BOREAL FORESTS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FIRE REGIMES; SPATIAL CLUSTERING;

FIRES;

BOREAL FOREST; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; LANDSCAPE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FIRE; FIRE ECOLOGY; FIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ZONE; FOREST FIRE; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIGA; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ENVIRONMENTS; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTS;

CHINA;

EID: 84924241962     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.02.063     Document Type: Article

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