An object-oriented forest landscape model and its representation of tree species

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-19

  He, Hong S ^a   Mladenoff, David J ^a   Boeder, Joel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Technical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Age class; LANDIS; Landscape model; Object oriented design (OOD); Spatially explicit; Tree species

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MODEL; SUCCESSION; TREE;

EID: 0033168602     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00041-1     Document Type: Article

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