title: A second-order impact model for forest fire regimes.
abstract: We present a very simple "impact" model for the description of forest fires and show that it can mimic the known characteristics of wild fire regimes in savannas, boreal forests, and Mediterranean forests. Moreover, the distribution of burned biomasses in model generated fires resemble those of burned areas in numerous large forests around the world. The model has also the merits of being the first second-order model for forest fires and the first example of the use of impact models in the study of ecosystems.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. maggi@elet.polimi.it
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maggi
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rinaldi
mesh_terms: D004463:Ecology; D005390:Fires; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014197:Trees