Spatially explicit and stochastic simulation of forest-landscape fire disturbance and succession

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-99

  He, Hong S ^a   Mladenoff, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire distributions; Fire disturbance; Heterogeneity; Ignition and spread; LANDIS; Landscape ecology; Landscape equilibrium; Landscape model; Spatially explicit and stochastic; Species resilience; Succession; Verification and calibration

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE; FOREST DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0032897055     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0081:SEASSO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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