Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Boer, Matthias M ^a   Bowman, David M J S ^b   Murphy, Brett P ^c   Cary, Geoffrey J ^d   Cochrane, Mark A ^e   Fensham, Roderick J ^f,g   Krawchuk, Meg A ^h   Price, Owen F ⁱ   De Dios, Víctor Resco ^a   Williams, Richard J ^j   Bradstock, Ross A ⁱ  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^j CSIRO   (Australia)

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Author keywords

climate change; climatic water balance; fire regimes; fuel type; transformation; tree cover

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FIRES; FUELS; PRODUCTIVITY;

CLIMATIC WATER BALANCE; FIRE REGIMES; FUEL TYPES; TRANSFORMATION; TREE COVER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FIRE; FUEL; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SAVANNA; TREE; VEGETATION COVER; WATER BUDGET; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84984539683     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/6/065002     Document Type: Article

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