Linking an ecosystem model and a landscape model to study forest species response to climate warming

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 114, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 213-233

  He, Hong S ^a   Mladenoff, David J ^a   Crow, Thomas R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b USFS Forest Science Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Gap model; LANDIS; LINKAGES; Spatial landscape model; Species establishment coefficient

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE;

UNITED STATES;

CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0032928948     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(98)00147-1     Document Type: Article

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