A simplified forest model to study species composition along climate gradients

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2055-2074

  Bugmann, Harald K M ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Europe; FORCLIM; Forest ecology; Forest gap models; Model comparisons; Model simplification; Modular modeling; Niche theory; Validation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC GRADIENT; FOREST; GAP MODEL;

EUROPE;

EID: 0030441120     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265700     Document Type: Article

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