Power-law distributions of urban tree cover

Edward Russel Hernandez, Patricia Breanne Sy, Michelle T. Cirunay and Rene C. Batac

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2024, vol. 643, issue C

Abstract: Many large-scale systems in nature and society are deemed to be exhibiting characteristics of self-organized criticality (SOC), a dynamical state that, among others, produces robust power-law or other heavy-tailed statistics despite not having any set of fine-tuned parameters. However, many of these systems are also affected by human activities, leading to the simultaneous action of self-organization and human intervention. In this work, we extract the geographical areas of tree-covered greeneries in a highly-urbanized setting and show the emergence of stable power-law tails in their distributions despite the large differences in the conditions of the cities considered. The result shows that while anthropogenic factors have steadily influenced the natural environment, especially in the urban setting, these systems still exhibit complex self-organization.

Keywords: Power laws; Self-organized criticality; Image processing; Urban green spaces; Philippines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437124002887
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:643:y:2024:i:c:s0378437124002887

DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2024.129779

Access Statistics for this article

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis

More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().