Author/Authors :
Ricotta، نويسنده , , Carlo and Arianoutsou، نويسنده , , Margarita and D??az-Delgado، نويسنده , , Ricardo and Duguy، نويسنده , , Beatriz and Lloret، نويسنده , , Francisco and Maroudi، نويسنده , , Eleni and Mazzoleni، نويسنده , , Stefano and Manuel Moreno، نويسنده , , José and Rambal، نويسنده , , Serge and Vallejo، نويسنده , , Ramon and V?zquez، نويسنده , , Antonio، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
Wildfire cumulative frequency–area distributions of Mediterranean landscapes are examined for agreement with self-similar (fractal) behavior. Our results support landscape-specific restricted scaling regions of 1.5–3.5 orders of magnitude in size, which are delimited by breakpoints or ‘cut-offs’. By identifying the extent of such regions in the fractal frequency–area distribution of wildfires, fractal statistics may give a deeper insight into the scale-invariant dynamics of fire spread, whereas the observed cut-offs may be related to changes in the process–pattern interactions that control wildfire propagation at the landscape scale.
