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Evaluation of satellite-derived burned area products for the fynbos, a Mediterranean shrubland

De Klerk, Helen Margaret; Wilson, Adam M.; Steenkamp, Karen (CSIRO Publishing, 2011-10-17)

Fire is a critical ecological process in the fynbos of the south-western area of South Africa, as it is for all dwarf Mediterranean shrublands. We evaluated the potential of current publicly available MODIS burned area ...
A hierarchical Bayesian model of wildfire in a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot : implications of weather variability and global circulation

Wilson, Adam M.; Latimer, Andrew M.; Silander, John A.; Gelfand, Alan E.; De Klerk, Helen Margaret (Elsevier, 2010)

In this study we combined an extensive database of observed wildfires with high-resolution meteorological data to build a novel spatially and temporally varying survival model to analyze fire regimes in the Mediterranean ...