Forest spread and phase transitions at forest-prairie ecotones in Kansas, U.S.A.

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 225-235

  Loehle, Craig ^a   Li, Bai Lian ^a   Sundell, Ronald C ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; Fractals; Grassland; Percolation; Stability; Succession

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DYNAMIC PERCOLATION MODEL; ECOTONE; FOREST; FRACTAL DIMENSION; PRAIRIE;

USA, KANSAS, FORT RILEY; USA, KANSAS, GEARY COUNTY;

EID: 0030440455     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02071813     Document Type: Article

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