Essays about: "Patrizia Vollmar"

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  1. 1. The influence of climate and land cover on wildfire patterns in the conterminous United States

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Patrizia Vollmar; [2014]
    Keywords : land cover; climate; United States; wildfire; spatial analysis; geomatics; physical geography; ecosystem analysis; geography; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The occurrence of wildfires is greatly dependent on an ecoregions typical climate and land cover type. To investigate whether climate or land cover primarily lead to wildfires in the conterminous United States, wildfire events from 1999- 2010 are analyzed. Wildfires are divided into years and eco-divisions, a sub-form of ecoregions. READ MORE