Search Results - "Gardner, R. H."

Simulating fire patterns in heterogeneous landscapes by Hargrove, W.W, Gardner, R.H, Turner, M.G, Romme, W.H, Despain, D.G

“…A broad-scale probabilistic model of forest fires, EMBYR, has been developed to simulate the effects of large fires burning through heterogeneous landscapes…”
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Another Brick in the Wall … no More! Breaking the Sex Bias by De Paoli, M., Gardner, H.R., Treweek, S.

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Landscape connectivity and population distributions in heterogeneous environments [corridors] by With, K.A, Gardner, R.H, Turner, M.G

“…Landscape connectivity refers to the functional relationship among habitat patches, owing to the spatial contagion of habitat and the movement responses of…”
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Postnatal neuronal apoptosis in the cerebral cortex: Physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms by Nikolić, M, Gardner, H.A.R, Tucker, K.L

“…Highlights • We review new advances in the study of postnatal apoptosis in the cerebral cortex. • We review roles for insulin-like growth factor I and the Rho…”
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Effect of Landscape Heterogeneity on the Probability of Patch Colonization by Gustafson, Eric J., Gardner, Robert H.

“…The effect of landscape heterogeneity on the dispersal of organisms between habitat islands is poorly understood. Preferred pathways for dispersal (i.e.,…”
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Effects of fire size and pattern on early succession in Yellowstone National Park by Turner, Monica G., Romme, William H., Gardner, Robert H., Hargrove, William W.

“…The Yellowstone fires of 1988 affected >250 000 ha, creating a mosaic of burn severities across the landscape and providing an ideal opportunity to study…”
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Analysis of the relationship between spatial pattern and spectral detectability of areas burned in southern Africa using satellite data by Sá, A. C. L., Pereira, J. M. C., Gardner, R. H.

“…Fires in Africa affect atmospheric emissions and carbon sequestration, landscape patterns, and regional and global climatic conditions. Studies of these…”
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Landscape patterns in a disturbed environment by Krummel, J.R, Gardner, R.H, Sugihara, G, O'Neill, R.V. (Oak Ridge National Lab., Tenn. (USA). Environmental Science Division), Coleman, P.R

“…Deciduous forest patterns were evaluated, using fractal analysis, in the U. S. Geological Survey 1: 250,000 Natchez Quadrangle, a region that has experienced…”
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A classification of landscape fire succession models: spatial simulations of fire and vegetation dynamics by Keane, Robert E, Cary, Geoffrey J, Davies, Ian D, Flannigan, Michael D, Gardner, Robert H, Lavorel, Sandra, Lenihan, James M, Li, Chao, Rupp, T.Scott

“…A classification of spatial simulation models of fire and vegetation dynamics (landscape fire succession models or LFSMs) is presented. The classification was…”
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Predicting the Spread of Disturbance across Heterogeneous Landscapes by Turner, Monica G., Gardner, Robert H., Dale, Virginia H., O'Neill, Robert V.

“…The expected pattern of disturbance propagation across a landscape was studied by using simple landscape models derived from percolation theory. The spread of…”
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Comparison of the sensitivity of landscape-fire-succession models to variation in terrain, fuel pattern, climate and weather by CARY, Geoffrey J, KEANE, Robert E, GARDNER, Robert H, LAVOREL, Sandra, FLANNIGAN, Mike D, DAVIES, Ian D, CHAO LI, LENIHAN, James M, RUPP, T. Scott, MOUILLOT, Florent

“…The purpose of this study was to compare the sensitivity of modelled area burned to environmental factors across a range of independently-developed…”
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Analysis of Patterns in Hierarchically Structured Landscapes by Lavorel, Sandra, Gardner, Robert H., O'Neill, Robert V.

“…Scale-dependent effects of landscape heterogeneity were examined by a series of hierarchically structured maps generated by randomly selecting site suitability…”
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Simulating dispersal of reintroduced species within heterogeneous landscapes by Gardner, Robert H., Gustafson, Eric J.

“…This paper describes the development and application of a spatially explicit, individual based model of animal dispersal (J-walk) to determine the relative…”
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Evaluating empirical scaling relations of pattern metrics with simulated landscapes by Shen, Weijun, Darrel Jenerette, G., Wu, Jianguo, H. Gardner, Robert

“…Landscape patterns demonstrate scale-dependent properties that have been parsimoniously described by empirical scaling functions. These functions, derived from…”
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Effects of disturbance on nitrogen export from forested lands of the Chesapeake Bay watershed by ESHLEMAN, K. N, GARDNER, R. H, SEAGLE, S. W, CASTRO, N. M, FISCUS, D. A, WEBB, J. R, GALLOWAY, J. N, DEVINEY, F. A, HERLIHY, A. T

“…The objective of this research project is to develop, test, validate, and demonstrate an analytical framework for assessing regional-scale forest disturbance…”
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Multiscale Experiments in Coastal Ecology: Improving Realism and Advancing Theory by PETERSEN, JOHN E, KEMP, W. MICHAEL, BARTLESON, RICK, BOYNTON, WALTER R, CHEN, CHUNG-CHI, CORNWELL, JEFFREY C, GARDNER, ROBERT H, HINKLE, DEBORAH C, HOUDE, EDWARD D, MALONE, THOMAS C, MOWITT, WILLIAM P, MURRAY, LAURA, SANFORD, LAWRENCE P, STEVENSON, J. COURT, SUNDBERG, KAREN L, SUTTLES, STEVE E

“…The Multiscale Experimental Ecosystem Research Center has conducted a series of mesocosm experiments to quantify the effects of scale—in terms of time, depth,…”
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Landscape Disturbance Models and the Long-term Dynamics of Natural Areas by Turner, Monica G., Romme, William H., Gardner, Robert H.

“…The management of natural areas in disturbance-prone landscapes poses many challenges for which spatially explicit models can provide useful guidance. We have…”
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A general model for simulating the effects of landscape heterogeneity and disturbance on community patterns by Plotnick, Roy E, Gardner, Robert H

“…An individual-based, spatially explicit stochastic lattice model, CAPS, was designed to examine multiple processes responsible for spatial patterns of…”
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Spatio-Temporal Dispersal Strategies and Annual Plant Species Coexistence in a Structured Landscape by Lavorel, Sandra, O'Neill, Robert V., Gardner, Robert H.

“…Field observations and models have shown: (1) differences in dispersal and dormancy strategies could account for species coexistence in disturbed environments,…”
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Robust Analysis of Aggregation Error by Gardner, R. H., Cale, W. G., O'Neill, R. V.

“…The complexity of ecological systems requires investigators to deal with aggregates: individuals aggregated into populations or populations aggregated into…”
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