Grass feedbacks on fire stabilize savannas

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2227-2233

  Beckage, Brian ^a   Gross, Louis J ^b   Platt, William J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Ecosystem engineer; Feedback; Fire; Forest; Grassland; Savanna

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEER; FOREST; GRASSLAND; SAVANNA;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; STATE FEEDBACK; VEGETATION;

FIRES;

COEXISTENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRASS; HABITAT LOSS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERSTORY; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAVANNA; STABILIZATION; STOCHASTICITY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

POACEAE;

EID: 79959357705     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.01.015     Document Type: Article

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