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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 83(4 Pt 2): 046118, 2011 Apr.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21599251
RESUMO
Observations suggest that contemporary wildfire suppression practices in the United States have contributed to conditions that facilitate large, destructive fires. We introduce a forest-fire model with natural fire resistance that supports this theory. Fire resistance is defined with respect to the size and shape of clusters; the model yields power-law frequency-size distributions of model fires that are consistent with field observations in the United States, Canada, and Australia.