Incorporation and influence of variability in an aggregated forest model

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 103-137

  Loffler T J ^a   Lischke, H ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Biodiversity; Discform; Forclim P; Forest model; Intrinsic variability; Patch model; Site condition variability; Structured population; Temporal variability; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000602285     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2001.tb00052.x     Document Type: Article

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