Understanding shifts in wildfire regimes as emergent threshold phenomena

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Zinck, Richard D ^a,b,c   Pascual, Mercedes ^a,b   Grimm, Volker ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Criticality; Forest fire model; Power law scalings; Regime shift; Self organized criticality; Threshold phenomena; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE SPREAD; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; POPULATION GROWTH; POWER LAW; STOCHASTICITY; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES; WILDFIRE;

CANADA;

EID: 81355153405     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662675     Document Type: Article

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