Modelling succession from pasture to forest in time and space

Community Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 181-189

  Wildi, O ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Competition; Logistic growth; Long term succession; Simulation; Spatial diffusion

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PASTURE; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0037004043     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.3.2002.2.5     Document Type: Article

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