How Fire History, Fire Suppression Practices and Climate Change Affect Wildfire Regimes in Mediterranean Landscapes

Lluís Brotons; Núria Aquilué; Miquel de Cáceres; Marie-Josée Fortin; Andrew Fall

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062392

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How Fire History, Fire Suppression Practices and Climate Change Affect Wildfire Regimes in Mediterranean Landscapes

Lluís Brotons ,

* E-mail: lluis.brotons@ctfc.cat

Affiliations Grup d’Ecologia del Paisatge, Àrea de Biodiversitat, CTFC (Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya), Solsona, Catalonia, Spain, CREAF (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals), Bellaterra, Spain
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Núria Aquilué,

Affiliations Grup d’Ecologia del Paisatge, Àrea de Biodiversitat, CTFC (Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya), Solsona, Catalonia, Spain, CREAF (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals), Bellaterra, Spain
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Miquel de Cáceres,

Affiliations Grup d’Ecologia del Paisatge, Àrea de Biodiversitat, CTFC (Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya), Solsona, Catalonia, Spain, CREAF (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals), Bellaterra, Spain
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Marie-Josée Fortin,

Affiliation Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Andrew Fall

Affiliation Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University and Gowlland Technologies Ltd, Lasqueti, British Columbia, Canada
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How Fire History, Fire Suppression Practices and Climate Change Affect Wildfire Regimes in Mediterranean Landscapes

Lluís Brotons,
Núria Aquilué,
Miquel de Cáceres,
Marie-Josée Fortin,
Andrew Fall

Published: May 2, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062392

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Web information on the MEDFIRE model

Posted by lluisbrotons on 13 Jun 2013 at 13:25 GMT

This is just to add information on a web page providing further information on the MEDFIRE model and related developments.
https://sites.google.com/...
Cheers,
Lluís Brotons

No competing interests declared.

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