Forest fires within a temperate landscape: A decadal and millennial perspective from a sandstone region in central Europe

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 336, Issue , 2015, Pages 81-90

  Adámek, Martin ^a,b   Bobek, Přemysl ^a,b   Hadincová, Věroslava ^b   Wild, Jan ^b,c   Kopecký, Martin ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Charcoal records; Fire regime; Pinus sylvestris; Sandstone landscape; Temperate forests; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; DEFORESTATION; SANDSTONE; TIMBER; VEGETATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; FIRE REGIMES; FOREST COMPOSITIONS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; TEMPERATE FORESTS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; WILDFIRE;

FIRES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; PALEOECOLOGY; SANDSTONE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATE FOREST; TIMESCALE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDFIRE;

ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84949116206     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.10.014     Document Type: Article

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