The impact of increasing fire frequency on forest transformations in southern Siberia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 382, Issue , 2016, Pages 225-235

  Kukavskaya, Elena A ^a   Buryak, Ludmila V ^b   Shvetsov, Evgeny G ^a   Conard, Susan G ^c,d   Kalenskaya, Olga P ^b  

^a SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^b RESHETNEV SIBERIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area burned; Carbon emissions; Fuel loads; Postfire regeneration; Repeated burning; Steppification; Zabaikal region

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; FIREPROOFING; FIRES; FUELS; REFORESTATION;

AREA BURNED; CARBON EMISSIONS; FUEL LOADS; POST-FIRE REGENERATIONS; STEPPIFICATION; ZABAIKAL REGION;

FORESTRY;

BURNING; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON EMISSION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; REGENERATION; SATELLITE DATA; STEPPE; WILDFIRE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; TRANSBAIKALIA;

LARIX; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84992449520     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.10.015     Document Type: Article

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