Power-law behaviour and parametric models for the size-distribution of forest fires

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 239-254

  Reed, William J ^a   McKelvey, Kevin S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b USDA Forest Service Forestry Science Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinguishment growth rate ratio; Fire area; Power law; Self organized criticality; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST FIRE; POWER LAW;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0036569062     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(01)00483-5     Document Type: Article

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