Data in support of environmental controls on the characteristics of mean number of forest fires and mean forest area burned (1987–2007) in China

Fire frequency and size are two important parameters describing fire characteristics. Exploring the spatial variation of fire characteristics and understanding the environmental controls are indispensable to fire prediction and sustainable forest landscape management. To illustrate the spatial varia...

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Main Authors:	Yu Chang, Zhiliang Zhu, Rencang Bu, Yuehui Li, Yuanman Hu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2015-09-01
Series:	Data in Brief
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340915001444

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spelling	doaj-48d0d0e2d9db452f8c932138e55fc3cf2020-11-24T21:48:05ZengElsevierData in Brief2352-34092015-09-014C56356510.1016/j.dib.2015.07.025Data in support of environmental controls on the characteristics of mean number of forest fires and mean forest area burned (1987–2007) in ChinaYu Chang0Zhiliang Zhu1Rencang Bu2Yuehui Li3Yuanman Hu4State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, ChinaU.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 20192, USAState Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, ChinaFire frequency and size are two important parameters describing fire characteristics. Exploring the spatial variation of fire characteristics and understanding the environmental controls are indispensable to fire prediction and sustainable forest landscape management. To illustrate the spatial variation of forest fire characteristics over China and to quantitatively determine the relative contribution of each of the environmental controls to this variation, forest fire characteristic data (mean number of forest fires and mean burned forest area) and environmental data (climate, land use, vegetation type and topography) at provincial level were derived. These data sets can potentially serve as a foundation for future studies relating to fire risk assessment, carbon emission by forest fires, and the impact of climate change on fire characteristics. This data article contains data related to the research article entitled “Environmental controls on the characteristics of mean number of forest fires and mean forest area burned (1987–2007) in China” by chang et al. [1].http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340915001444
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title	Data in support of environmental controls on the characteristics of mean number of forest fires and mean forest area burned (1987–2007) in China
title_short	Data in support of environmental controls on the characteristics of mean number of forest fires and mean forest area burned (1987–2007) in China
title_full	Data in support of environmental controls on the characteristics of mean number of forest fires and mean forest area burned (1987–2007) in China
title_fullStr	Data in support of environmental controls on the characteristics of mean number of forest fires and mean forest area burned (1987–2007) in China
title_full_unstemmed	Data in support of environmental controls on the characteristics of mean number of forest fires and mean forest area burned (1987–2007) in China
title_sort	data in support of environmental controls on the characteristics of mean number of forest fires and mean forest area burned (1987–2007) in china
publisher	Elsevier
series	Data in Brief
issn	2352-3409
publishDate	2015-09-01
description	Fire frequency and size are two important parameters describing fire characteristics. Exploring the spatial variation of fire characteristics and understanding the environmental controls are indispensable to fire prediction and sustainable forest landscape management. To illustrate the spatial variation of forest fire characteristics over China and to quantitatively determine the relative contribution of each of the environmental controls to this variation, forest fire characteristic data (mean number of forest fires and mean burned forest area) and environmental data (climate, land use, vegetation type and topography) at provincial level were derived. These data sets can potentially serve as a foundation for future studies relating to fire risk assessment, carbon emission by forest fires, and the impact of climate change on fire characteristics. This data article contains data related to the research article entitled “Environmental controls on the characteristics of mean number of forest fires and mean forest area burned (1987–2007) in China” by chang et al. [1].
url	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340915001444
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Data in support of environmental controls on the characteristics of mean number of forest fires and mean forest area burned (1987–2007) in China

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