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Baldwin, D.J.B., K. Weaver, F. Schnekenburger and A.H. Perera. 2004. Sensitivity of landscape pattern indices to input data characteristics on real landscapes: Implications for their use in natural disturbance emulation. Landscape Ecology 19(3): 255-271.

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Boychuk, D. and A.H. Perera. 1997. Modeling temporal variability of boreal landscape age-classes under different fire disturbance regimes and spatial scales. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27(7): 1083-1094.

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Boychuk, D., A.H. Perera, M.T. Ter-Mikaelian, D.L. Martell and C. Li. 1997. Modeling the effect of spatial scale and correlated fire disturbances on forest age distribution. Ecological Modelling 95:145-164.

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Boyd, S.W., R.W. Butler, W. Haider and A.H. Perera. 1994. Identifying areas for ecotourism in northern Ontario: Application of a geographical information system methodology. Journal of Applied Recreational Research 19(1): 41-66.

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Crow, T.R. and A.H. Perera. 2004. Emulating natural landscape disturbance in forest management – an introduction. Landscape Ecology. 19: 231-233.

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Cui, W. and A.H. Perera. 2008. What do we know about forest fire size distribution, and why is this knowledge useful for forest management? International Journal of Wildland Fire 17: 234-244.

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Dalziel, B.D. and A.H. Perera. 2009. Tree mortality following boreal forest fires reveals scale-dependant interactions between community structure and fire intensity. Ecosystems 12: 973-981.

Drescher, M. and A.H. Perera. In Press. Comparing two sets of forest cover change knowledge used in forest landscape management planning. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.

Drescher, M. and A.H. Perera. 2010. A network approach for evaluating and communicating forest change models. Journal of Applied Ecology.47: 57-66. (PDF available upon request)

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Drescher, M., A.H. Perera, L.J. Buse, K. Ride and S. Vasiliauskas. 2008. Uncertainty in expert knowledge of forest succession: A case study from boreal Ontario. The Forestry Chronicle 84(2): 194-209.

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Li, C. and A.H. Perera. 1997. ON-FIRE: A landscape model for simulating the fire regime of northwest Ontario. China Environmental Science Press, ESCY Transaction 4: 369-392.

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Li, C., M.T. Ter-Mikaelian and A.H. Perera. 1997. Temporal fire disturbance patterns on a forest landscape. Ecological Modelling 99: 137-150.

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Obbard, M.E., B.A. Pond and A.H. Perera. 1998. Preliminary evaluation of GPS collars for analysis of habitat use and activity patterns of black bears. Ursus 10: 209-217.

Perera, A.H. and W. Cui. 2010. Emulating natural disturbances as a forest management goal: Lessons from fire regime simulations. Forest Ecology and Management. 259: 1328-1337. (PDF available upon request)

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Perera, A. H., J.A. Baker, L.E. Band and D.J.B. Baldwin. 1996. A strategic framework to eco-regionalize Ontario. Environmental Monitoring Assessment. 39:85-96.

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Perera, A.H., B.D. Dalziel, L.J. Buse and R. Routledge. 2009. Spatial variability of stand-scale residuals in Ontario’s boreal forest fires. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 945-961.

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Perera, A.H., D.J.B. Baldwin, D.G. Yemshanov, F. Schnekenburger, K. Weaver and D. Boychuk. 2003. Predicting the potential for old-growth forests by spatial simulation of landscape ageing patterns. The Forestry Chronicle 79(3): 621-631.

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Remmel, T.K. and A.H. Perera. In Press. Mapping natural phenomena: boreal forest fires with non-discrete boundaries. Cartographica 44(4):275-289.

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Remmel, T.K. and A.H. Perera. 2002. Accuracy of discontinuous binary surfaces: A case study using boreal forest fires. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 16(3): 287-298.

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Remmel, T.K. and A.H. Perera. 2001. Fire mapping in a northern boreal forest: Assessing AVHRR/NDVI methods of change direction. Forest Ecology and Management 152: 119-129.

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Schroeder, D. and A.H. Perera. 2002. A comparison of large-scale spatial vegetation patterns following clearcuts and fires in Ontario's boreal forests. Forest Ecology and Management 159(3): 217-230.

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Suffling, R., M. Evans and A.H. Perera. 2003. Presettlement forest in southern Ontario: Ecosystems measured through a cultural prism. The Forestry Chronicle 79(3): 485-501.

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Weaver, K. and A.H. Perera. 2004. Modelling land cover transitions: A solution to the problem of spatial dependence in data. Landscape Ecology 19(3): 273-289.

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Yemshanov, D. and A.H. Perera. 2003. Synthesizing the published knowledge of boreal forest cover change for large-scale landscape dynamics modelling. The Forestry Chronicle 79(1): 132-146.

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Yemshanov, D. and A.H. Perera. 2002. A spatially explicit stochastic model to simulate boreal forest cover transitions: general structure and properties. Ecological Modelling 150(2): 189-209.