Socioeconomic Factors Drive Fire-Regime Variability in the Mediterranean Basin

Ecosystems

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 619-628

  Chergui, Brahim ^a   Fahd, Soumia ^a   Santos, Xavier ^b   Pausas, Juli G ^c  

^a ABDELMALEK ESSAADI UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^c Atmosphere and Ocean Laboratory   (Spain)

Author keywords

Area burnt; Fire and climate; Fire regime; Fuel amount; Land use changes; Morocco; Rural abandonment; Socioeconomic drivers; Spain; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; FIRE; LAND USE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; SPAIN; VALENCIA [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA];

EID: 85028310951     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-017-0172-6     Document Type: Article

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