Improving the behaviour of forest gap models along drought gradients

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 103, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 247-263

  Bugmann, Harald ^a   Cramer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

FORCLIM; Forest dynamics; Gap models; Modelling; Species composition; Water balance

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOREST GAP MODEL; MODELLING; SOIL MOISTURE;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA, (EAST);

EID: 0032550344     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(97)00217-X     Document Type: Article

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