Subalpine fires: the roles of vegetation, climate and, ultimately, land uses

Climatic Change

Volumn 135, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 683-697

  Leys, Bérangère ^a,b   Carcaillet, Christopher ^a,c  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; LAND USE; VEGETATION;

BROADLEAVED TREES; BURNING ACTIVITY; FIRE FREQUENCIES; FIRE RETURN INTERVALS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; VEGETATION FIRE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

FIRES;

BURNING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FOREST FIRE; GRASSLAND; HOLOCENE; LAND USE CHANGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

LARIX DECIDUA; PINUS CEMBRA;

EID: 84961185048     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1594-4     Document Type: Article

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