Wildfires dynamics in Siberian larch forests

Forests

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Ponomarev, Evgenii I ^a,b   Kharuk, Viacheslav I ^a,b   Ranson, Kenneth J ^c  

^a SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^b SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Burned area; Climate induced trends in Siberian wildfires; Drought index; Fire frequency; Fire return interval; Larch stands; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); DEFORESTATION; DROUGHT; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; SOLAR RADIATION;

BURNED AREAS; CLIMATE-INDUCED TRENDS IN SIBERIAN WILDFIRES; DROUGHT INDICES; FIRE FREQUENCIES; FIRE RETURN INTERVALS; LARCH STAND; WILDFIRES;

FIRES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DROUGHT; FOREST FIRE; WILDFIRE;

SIBERIA;

LARIX;

EID: 84976328497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f7060125     Document Type: Article

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