Wildfire suppression costs for Canada under a changing climate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Hope, Emily S ^a   McKenney, Daniel W ^a   Pedlar, John H ^a   Stocks, Brian J ^b   Gauthier, Sylvie ^c  

^a GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b BJ Stocks Wildfire Investigations Ltd   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA BASE; MODEL; MOISTURE; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TREE;

CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FIREFIGHTERS; FIRES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84983490021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157425     Document Type: Article

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