Song WG, Fan WC, Wang BH, Zhou JJ (2001b) Self-organized criticality of forest fire in China. Ecological Modelling 145(1), 61-68. [In English]

Web link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3800(01)00383-0

Keywords:

self-organized criticality; cellular automata; forest-fire model; fire-safety science; critical-behavior; immune trees; model; disturbance; patterns; regimes; climate; laws;

Abstract: Self-organized criticality (SOC) of forest fire is studied from an analysis of a large series of forest-fire records from 1950 to 1989 in China. The time-invariant, scale-invariant characteristics of SOC of forest fire in China are analyzed in detail. The deviations between the occurrence frequency of very large fires and the power-law relation are explained by the forest-fire model with tree immunity (FFMTI). Actual forest-fire records are compared with the simulation results of a self-organized critical forest-fire model. It is shown that the forest-fire model applies well to explain the SOC characteristics of a forest fire. SOC characteristics have practical implications on forest-fire protection. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.