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    • Understanding forest fire recurrence is crucial for ecosystem management and conservation.
    • Existing fire models often lack a deterministic approach to fire dynamics.
    • Forest morphology and species interactions significantly influence fire behavior.

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    • To develop a theoretical framework for deriving forest fire recurrence characteristics from forest morphology.
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    • Development of a minimal deterministic model incorporating forest morphology, overstory-understory species interactions, and fire transmission mechanisms.
    • Analysis of the model's dynamics to identify patterns of fire recurrence.
    • Parameterization of the model using characteristics representative of Mediterranean, boreal, and savanna forests.

    Main Results:

    • The model successfully derives fire recurrence characteristics from simple information on forest morphology.
    • Fire recurrence exhibits chaotic dynamics for parameter values typical of Mediterranean forests.
    • Boreal forests and savannas demonstrate a tendency towards periodic fire recurrence according to the model.

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    • A minimal deterministic model can effectively explain complex fire recurrence patterns in diverse forest ecosystems.
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