The mathematics of Markov models: What Markov chains can really predict in forest successions

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 126, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 285-298

  Logofet, Dmitrii O ^a   Lesnaya, Ekaterina V ^b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Continuous; Discrete; Estimation; Markov chain models; Prediction; Succession; Transition probabilities

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; SUCCESSION;

EID: 0034723982     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(00)00269-6     Document Type: Article

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