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Geographic analysis of the impacts of mountain pine beetle infestation on forest fire ignition.

In British Columbia, Canada, the largest mountain pine beetle outbreak on record has resulted in changes to fuel complexes that may alter fire regimes. The goal of this study is to analyze the relative importance of mountain pine beetle infestations as a determinant of forest fire ignition density i...

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Published in:Canadian Geographer Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 188 - 203
Main Authors: Bourbonnais, Mathieu L., Nelson, Trisalyn A., Wulder, Michael A.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Summer2014
Subjects:
British Columbia
Mountain pine beetle
Forest fires
Probability density function
Wildfires
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