Edge fires drive the shape and stability of tropical forests
L. Hebert-Dufresne, A. Pellegrini, U. Bhat, S. Redner, S. Pacala, A. Berdahl
The paper analyzes forest shape and stability in tropical regions, finding that perimeter-area scaling relations and fire propagation dynamics determine forest patch stability and landscape-level distribution.
bioRxiv · Feb 14, 2018Ecology