Neighbourhood rules make or break spatial scale invariance in a classic model of contagious disturbance

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 347-356

  Boer, Matthias M ^a,b   Johnston, Paul ^a,b   Sadler, Rohan J ^b  

^a BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Forest fires; Patch size distribution; Pattern formation; Self organization; Spatial interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 80955144223     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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