Coupled local facilitation and global hydrologic inhibition drive landscape geometry in a patterned peatland

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2133-2144

  Acharya, S ^a   Kaplan, D A ^b   Casey, S ^a   Cohen, M J ^a   Jawitz, J W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FEEDBACK; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS; MOBILE SECURITY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AREA FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODELING; PATTERN EVOLUTION; PLAUSIBLE MECHANISMS; POWER LAW SCALINGS; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; SEDIMENT REDISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC TRANSITIONS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ANISOTROPY; FACILITATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HYDROPERIOD; INHIBITION; LANDSCAPE; PEATLAND; POWER LAW; SELF ORGANIZATION; VARIOGRAM;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929191911     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-2133-2015     Document Type: Article

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