Dynamic simulation of tree-grass interactions for global change studies

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 449-469

  Daly, Christopher ^a   Bachelet, Dominique ^a   Lenihan, James M ^a   Neilson, Ronald P ^b   Parton, William ^c   Ojima, Dennis ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Belowground processes and global change; Belowground resources; Climate change; Dynamic vegetation model; Fire; Global change; Grassland; MC1; Root distribution; Savanna; Tree grass competition; Water availability; Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; ROOT SYSTEM;

SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES; WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK;

POACEAE;

EID: 0033864939     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0449:DSOTGI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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