Comparing the performance of forest gap models in North America

Climatic Change

Volumn 51, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 349-388

  Bugmann, Harald K M ^a   Wullschleger, Stan D ^b   Price, David T ^c   Ogle, Kiona ^d   Clark, Donald F ^e   Solomon, Allen M ^f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^f U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY;

FOREST DYNAMICS;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST DYNAMICS; MODEL VALIDATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

QUERCUS;

EID: 0035208897     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012537914881     Document Type: Article

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