Effects of Climate and Extreme Events on Wildfire Regime and Their Ecological Impacts

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 101-134

  Duguy, Beatriz ^a,b   Paula, Susana ^a   Pausas, Juli G ^c   Alloza, Josè Antonio ^a   Gimeno, Teresa ^a   Vallejo, Ramon V ^a  

^a FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Atmosphere and Ocean Laboratory   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fire modeling; Fire regime; Fire resilience; Plantations; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010674283     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5772-1_6     Document Type: Chapter

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