Modeling forest lightning fire occurrence in the Daxinganling Mountains of Northeastern China with MAXENT

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1422-1438

  Chen, Feng ^a   Du, Yongsheng ^b   Niu, Shukui ^a   Zhao, Jinlong ^a  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Forest Fire Prevention Headquarters   (China)

Author keywords

Daxinganling mountains; Environment variable; Fire occurrence prediction; Lightning fire; Maxent model

Indexed keywords

FIREPROOFING; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; LIGHTNING; VEGETATION;

DAXINGANLING MOUNTAINS; ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE; FIRE OCCURRENCES; INDEPENDENT CONTRIBUTIONS; LIGHTNING CHARACTERISTICS; MAXENT MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES;

FIRES;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; LIGHTNING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MODELING; PREDICTION;

CHINA; FOREST FIRES; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOUNTAINS;

CHINA; DA HINGGAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84930631349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6051422     Document Type: Article

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