Synthesizing published knowledge of boreal forest cover change for large-scale landscape dynamics modelling

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 132-144

  Yemshanov, Dennis ^a   Perera, Ajith H ^a  

^a ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal biome; Landscape ecology; Probabilistic model; Transition matrix

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; PROBABILITY;

FOREST COVER CHANGE;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0038018489     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc79132-1     Document Type: Review

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