Climate change and wildfire risk in an expanding wildland–urban interface: a case study from the Colorado Front Range Corridor

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1943-1957

  Liu, Zhihua ^a   Wimberly, Michael C ^a   Lamsal, Aashis ^a   Sohl, Terry L ^b   Hawbaker, Todd J ^c  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled human and natural systems; Disturbance; Land cover; Land use; Social ecological systems; Western United States

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WILDFIRE;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945478628     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0222-4     Document Type: Article

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