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- Title
Forest Dynamics with Canopy Gap Expansion and Stochastic Ising Model.
- Authors
Katori, Makoto; Kizaki, Shinya; Terui, Youichi; Kubo, Takuya
- Abstract
Importance of the influence of neighboring canopy gaps upon new gap creation has been clarified by the ecological study of a neotropical forest on Barro Colorado Island (BCI), Panama. A stochastic lattice model for the forest dynamics with interacting canopy gap expansion was introduced by Kubo et al. We give a theorem showing a condition that this model can be regarded as a stochastic Ising model, and that its stationary state is exactly given by a Gibbs state. Using this theorem, we obtain a Gibbs state which remarkably well approximates the real gap-size distribution in BCI.
- Publication
Fractals, 1998, Vol 6, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
0218-348X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0218348X98000092