Malanson, George P; Zeng, Yu; Walsh, Stephen J - In: Environment and Planning A 38 (2006) 4, pp. 619-632
Ecotones, such as advancing treelines, have been examined as complex self-organizing systems. Frontiers of human settlement may share some of their spatial characteristics, because they too include feedbacks between spatial pattern and process. Advancing frontiers of three study areas in the...