Self-organization and complexity in historical landscape patterns

Oikos

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 541-553

  Bolliger, Janine ^a,b   Sprott, Julien C ^c   Mladenoff, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COMPLEXITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; SELF ORGANIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038623552     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12109.x     Document Type: Article

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