A frame-based spatially explicit model of subarctic vegetation response to climatic change: Comparison with a point model

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 383-400

  Rupp, T Scott ^a,b   Starfield, Anthony M ^a   Chapin III, F Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Climatic change; Explicit; Fire; Insects; Landscape dynamics; Model; Spatially subarctic; Transient dynamics; Treeline

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

EID: 0034099542     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008168418778     Document Type: Article

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