Wildfire, landscape diversity and the Drossel-Schwabl model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 98-105

  Zinck, Richard D ^a   Johst, Karin ^a   Grimm, Volker ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cellular automaton; Diversity; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Landscape ecology; Self organization; Succession; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; FIRE SIZE; FOREST-FIRE MODELS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; LANDSCAPE DIVERSITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MODEL-BASED; POWER LAW; PREDICTIVE POWER; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SPATIAL SCALE; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TEMPORAL SCALE;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; ECOLOGY; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; OCEAN HABITATS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

FIRES;

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; SELF ORGANIZATION; SUCCESSION; WILDFIRE;

ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; HAZARDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TRANSLATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449731040     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.12.026     Document Type: Article

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