Exploring the role of fire, succession, climate, and weather on landscape dynamics using comparative modeling

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 172-186

  Keane, Robert E ^a   Cary, Geoffrey J ^b,c   Flannigan, Mike D ^d,e   Parsons, Russell A ^a   Davies, Ian D ^b   King, Karen J ^b   Li, Chao ^d   Bradstock, Ross A ^c,f   Gill, Malcolm ^b,c  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^d LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f NSW) ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Landscape dynamics; Landscape ecology; Model comparison; Simulation modeling; Succession; Wildland fire

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MODEL COMPARISON; SUCCESSION; WILDLAND FIRE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; FIRES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PROCESS CONTROL; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84882670425     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.06.020     Document Type: Article

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