Woody plant mortality algorithms: Description, problems and progress

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 126, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 225-248

  Hawkes, Corinna ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Death; Deterministic; Empirical; Growth efficiency; Mechani stic; Model; Mortality; Shrubs; Stochastic; Trees; Validation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MORTALITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODY PLANT;

EID: 0034723981     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(00)00267-2     Document Type: Article

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