Decreasing fires in mediterranean Europe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Turco, Marco ^a,h   Bedia, Joaquín ^b   Di Liberto, Fabrizio ^c   Fiorucci, Paolo ^d   Von Hardenberg, Jost ^a   Koutsias, Nikos ^e   Llasat, Maria Carmen ^f   Xystrakis, Fotios ^e   Provenzale, Antonello ^g  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c State Forestry Corps   (Italy)

^d CIMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g CNR   (Italy)

^h BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; FIRE; FRANCE; GREECE; ITALY; LANDSCAPE; PORTUGAL; SEASHORE; SPAIN; STATISTICS; STRESS; WARMING; EUROPE; FORECASTING; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EUROPE; FIRES; FORECASTING; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84969744040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150663     Document Type: Article

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