Here are some references that are relevant for quantifying the hazard of burning in several different vegetation types. (This is not intended as a conclusive review of the literature…Feel free to send additional examples to add to this collection: mmoritz@physics.ucsb.edu)

Baker, W.L. 1989. Effect of scale and spatial heterogeneity on fire-interval distributions. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 19:700-706.

Clark, J.S. 1989. Ecological disturbance as a renewal process: theory and application to fire history. Oikos 56:17-30.

Clark, J.S. 1990. Fire and climate change during the last 750 yr in Northwestern Minnesota. Ecological Monographs 60:135-160.

Finney, M.A. 1995. The missing tail and other considerations for the use of fire history models. International Journal of Wildland Fire 5:197-202.

Grissino-Mayer, H.D. 1999. Modeling fire interval data from the American Southwest with the Weibull distribution. International Journal of Wildland Fire 9:37-50.

Johnson, E.A. 1992. Fire and vegetation dynamics: studies from the North American boreal forest. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

Johnson, E.A. and S.L. Gutsell. 1994. Fire frequency models, methods, and interpretations. Advances in Ecological Research 25:239-287.

Johnson, E.A. and C.P.S. Larsen. 1991. Climatically induced change in fire frequency in the southern Canadian Rockies. Ecology 72:194-201.

Johnson, E.A. and C.E. Van Wagner. 1985. The theory and use of two fire history models. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 15:214-220.

Polakow, D.A. and T.T. Dunne. 1999. Modelling fire-return interval T: stochasticity and censoring in the two-parameter Weibull model. Ecological Modelling 121:79-102.

Reed, W.J., C.P.S. Larsen, E.A. Johnson, and G.M. MacDonald. 1998. Estimation of temporal variations in historical fire frequency from time-since-fire map data. Forest Science 44:465-475.

Suffling, R. B. Smith, and J.D. Molin. 1982. Estimating past forest age distributions and disturbance rates in north-western Ontario: a demographic approach. Journal of Environmental Management 14:45-56.

Yarie, J. 1981. Forest fire cycles and life tables: a case study from interior Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 11:554-562.



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