Predicting Southern Appalachian overstory vegetation with digital terrain data

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 271-283

  Bolstad, Paul V ^a   Swank, Wayne ^b   Vose, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SFES   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Composition; Deciduous forests; DEM; Landscape; Prediction; Terrain shape

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031826190     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008060508762     Document Type: Article

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