Contagious disturbance, ecological memory, and the emergence of landscape pattern

Ecosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 329-338

  Peterson, Garry D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Keystone processes; Landscape ecology; Patch dynamics; Scale; Self organization; Spatial dynamics

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FIRE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PATCH DYNAMICS;

EID: 0036625925     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-001-0077-1     Document Type: Article

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