International Journal of Forestry Research
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 270387, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/270387
Research Article

Impact of Weather Covariates on Wildfire in Tanjung Puting National Park

Esa Eslami,1 Akane Nishimura,2 and Frederic Paik Schoenberg1

1Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 91302, USA

Received 1 October 2008; Revised 5 March 2009; Accepted 5 May 2009

Academic Editor: Scott D. Roberts

Copyright © 2009 Esa Eslami et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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