Using mechanistic models to scale ecological processes across space and time

BioScience

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 68-76

  Rastetter, Edward B ^a   Aber, John D ^b   Peters, Debra P C ^c   Ojima, Dennis S ^d   Burke, Ingrid C ^d  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem models; Long term ecological research; Mechanistic models; Scaling; Spatial projection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037232957     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0068:UMMTSE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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