Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Wildland fire is a global process, subject to regional characteri-zation, with localized impacts on natural resources, people and their social systems. Fire science strives to meld international-and national-scale applicability with regional- and local-scale application. Satellite observations reinforce the belief that as the basic combustion and behaviour processes governing fire are globally consistent, models of those processes should be adaptable to local conditions. Although the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System is a notable exception, years of scien-tific effort have gone into developing fire systems that are often not accepted outside of their region of origin within a nation, or across national boundaries. The United States are regionally divided into east, interior west and west coast in terms of ecosys-tem domains and demographic distributions. The eastern United States are approximately bounded by the west side of the Missis-
DOI: 10.1071/wf08097
Author: William T. Sommers
Institution: George Mason University
Language: English
Topic: Fire effects on ecosystems
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2013582248