A minimal model of fire-vegetation feedbacks and disturbance stochasticity generates alternative stable states in grassland-shrubland-woodland systems

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Batllori, Enric ^a,b,c   Ackerly, David D ^d   Moritz, Max A ^c  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative stable states; fire; fire vegetation feedbacks; flammability; mediterranean type ecosystems; stochasticity; system behavior

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; FLAMMABILITY; FORESTRY;

ALTERNATIVE STABLE STATE; MEDITERRANEAN-TYPE ECOSYSTEMS; STOCHASTICITY; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; VEGETATION FEEDBACKS;

VEGETATION;

BIOME; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; SUCCESSION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; THRESHOLD; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84925426240     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034018     Document Type: Article

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