Development of a MIOMBO woodland dynamics model in Zambezian Africa using Malawi as a case study

Climatic Change

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-288

  Desanker, Paul V ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FORSKA; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MIOMBO; PATCH MODEL; WOODLAND DYNAMICS;

MALAWI;

EID: 0029660735     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00224639     Document Type: Article

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