Mapping fire behaviour under changing climate in a Mediterranean landscape in Greece

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1929-1940

  Mitsopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Mallinis, Giorgos ^b   Karali, Anna ^c   Giannakopoulos, Christos ^c   Arianoutsou, Margarita ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climate change projections; Fire behaviour; Landscape fire modelling; Mediterranean ecosystem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945563995     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0884-0     Document Type: Article

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