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Urban, D.L., Wallin, D.O. (2002). Introduction to Markov Models. In: Gergel, S.E., Turner, M.G. (eds) Learning Landscape Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21613-8_4
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