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Fire Breaks

Fire Breaks is a strategic fuel modification technique in fire management policy that consists of a deliberately cleared or treated strip of land designed to interrupt the spread of wildfires by creating a barrier that deprives the fire of continuous combustible material.

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77

Authors

59

Institutions

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2017–2026

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Variants

Firebreaks

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Publications

25

LANDSCAPE INFLUENCES ON OCCURRENCE AND SPREAD OF WILDFIRES IN PATAGONIAN FORESTS AND SHRUBLANDS

Mónica Mermoz, Thomas Kitzberger, Thomas T. Veblen · Ecology · 2005 · 281 citations

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An elliptical growth model of forest fire fronts and its numerical solution

Gwynfor D. Richards · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering · 1990 · 236 citations

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The history and pattern of fire in the boreal forest of southeastern Labrador

David R. Foster · Canadian Journal of Botany · 1983 · 195 citations

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Landscape-level interactions of prefire vegetation, burn severity, and postfire vegetation over a 16-year period in interior Alaska

Justin Epting, David L. Verbyla · Canadian Journal of Forest Research · 2005 · 139 citations

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Forest fires and adaptation options in Europe

Nikolay Khabarov, A. A. Krasovskiĭ, Michael Obersteiner et al. · Regional Environmental Change · 2014 · 105 citations · Full text

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Authors

77

  1. GD
    Gwynfor D. Richards

    Brandon University, Canada

    2 publications · 254 citations

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  2. AM
    André Mora

    Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  3. SC
    Sara C. Hotchkiss

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  4. EV
    Elsa Varela

    Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, Spain

    1 publications · 35 citations

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  5. SD
    Selen Durak

    Bursa Uludağ Üni̇versi̇tesi̇, Türkiye

    1 publications · 22 citations

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Institutions

59

  1. Brandon University

    Brandon, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    254 citations

  2. Schlumberger (Ireland)

    Dublin, Ireland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    63 citations

  3. US Forest Service

    Washington, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    69 citations

  4. Sierra Club

    Oakland, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    80 citations

  5. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  6. Joint Research Centre

    Ispra, Italy

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    420 citations

  7. Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia

    Solsona, Spain

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    35 citations

  8. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

    Laxenburg, Austria

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    315 citations

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Venues

  1. International Journal of Wildland Fire

    3 publications · 143 citations

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  2. Canadian Journal of Forest Research

    3 publications · 232 citations

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  4. Fire

    2 publications · 40 citations

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  5. PLoS ONE

    1 publications · 31 citations

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