A review of forest gap models

Climatic Change

Volumn 51, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 259-305

  Bugmann, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FOREST GAP MODELS;

FORESTRY;

FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; GLOBAL CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION;

EID: 0035205675     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012525626267     Document Type: Review

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