Projecting wildfire area burned in the south-eastern United States, 2011-60

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 715-729

  Prestemon, Jeffrey P ^a   Shankar, Uma ^b   Xiu, Aijun ^b   Talgo, K ^b   Yang, D ^b   Dixon, Ernest ^c   Mckenzie, Donald ^a   Abt, Karen L ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Global Forest Partners LP   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; human caused wildfire; land use; lightning caused wildfire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977118034     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF15124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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