Modeling forest landscapes: Parameter estimation from gap models over heterogeneous terrain

Simulation

Volumn 77, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 53-68

  Acevedo, Miguel F ^a,b   Pamarti, Siva ^c   Ablan, Magdiel ^b   Urban, Dean L ^d   Mikler, Armin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^c Center for Advanced Research and Technology   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

FACET; Forest; Gap model; H.J. Andrews; Landscape; MOSAIC; Scaling up; Semi Markov

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECOLOGY; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

GAP MODEL; LANDSCAPE; SEMI-MARKOV MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0035410785     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003754970107700104     Document Type: Article

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