Study of structural, successional and spatial patterns in tropical rain forests using TROLL, a spatially explicit forest model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 124, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 233-254

  Chave, Jérôme ^a  

^a SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Canopy gaps; Individual based model; Parallel processing; Simulation; Spatial patterns; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED DORMANCY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUCCESSION; TREEFALL; TROPICAL FOREST;

FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 0033552662     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00171-4     Document Type: Article

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