Biomass consumed in anthropogenic vegetation fires: global patterns and processes
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Globally, it is very difficult to disaggregate the influence of humans on fire regimes.
“Globally, it is very difficult to disaggregate the influence of humans on fire regimes (Krawchuk et al., 2009; Lauk & Erb, 2009), so the pyric transition concept is yet to be subjected to a quantitative analysis.”
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“[13] Christian Lauk and Karl-Heinz Erb.”
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- Authors
- Lauk, C., & Erb, K.-H.
- Affiliations
- University of Klagenfurt (AT)
- Corresponding author
- Lauk, Christian
- Venue
- Ecological Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-12
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 301-309
- ISSN
- 0921-8009 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2120859985
- Cited by
- 70
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 5.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Ecological Economics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Austrian Science Fund
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Keywords
- biomass combustion, shifting cultivation, crop residue burning, land use management, biomass flows, population density, industrialization, potential natural vegetation, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Central Asia
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