Unifying wildfire models from ecology and statistical physics

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Zinek, Richard D ^a   Grimm, Volker ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecological memory; Landscape ecology; Pattern oriented modeling; Self organization; Statistical physics; Wildfire models

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SELF ORGANIZATION; SUCCESSION; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; FORESTRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TREE;

ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; FORESTRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 72449176485     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605959     Document Type: Article

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