Differences in human versus lightning fires between urban and rural areas of the boreal forest in interior Alaska

Forests

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 422-

  Calef, Monika P ^a   Varvak, Anna ^a   McGuire, A David ^b  

^a SOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Climate change; Fire regime; GIS; Human influence; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IGNITION; LAND USE; LIGHTNING; RURAL AREAS;

BOREAL FORESTS; FIRE REGIMES; HUMAN INFLUENCES; SPARSELY POPULATED AREAS; URBAN AND RURAL AREAS; WILDFIRE; WILDFIRE REGIMES; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

FIRES;

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIGHTNING; RURAL AREA; TEMPERATURE; URBAN AREA; WILDFIRE;

FOREST FIRES; GIS; LAND USE; LIGHTNING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; FAIRBANKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85033472561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f8110422     Document Type: Article

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