Figure 2.
The results from the cellular automaton simulation of fire disturbance, illustrating the effect of fire size on emergent habitat configurations sampled from a 100 ha (50 × 50 cell) plot at the center of a 900 ha (150 × 150 cell) landscape: (A) median habitat patch size (log scale); (B) spatial heterogeneity; (C) maximum habitat patch age; and (D) Shannon’s index of patch age diversity. Horizontal bars represent median values, boxes indicate the first and third quartiles, whiskers show the highest and lowest values within 1.5*IQR (the interquartile range), and points represent data lying outside this range.