Impact of human population density on fire frequency at the global scale
Human impact on wildfires, a major earth system component, remains poorly understood. While local studies have found more fires close to settlements and roads, assimilated charcoal records and analyses of regional fire patterns from remote-sensing observations point to a decline in fire freq...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-02-01
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Series: | Biogeosciences |
Online Access: | http://www.biogeosciences.net/11/1085/2014/bg-11-1085-2014.pdf |