SPAnDX: A process-based population dynamics model to explore management and climate change impacts on an invasive alien plant, Acacia nilotica

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 187-208

  Kriticos, Darren J ^a,b   Brown, Joel R ^c   Maywald, Gunter F ^a   Radford, Ian D ^a   Nicholas, D Mike ^a   Sutherst, Robert W ^a   Adkins, Steve W ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acacia nilotica; Biological invasions; Climate change; Cohort based model; DYMEX; Global change; Population modelling; Simulation modelling; Wind

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; METAPOPULATION; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING;

AUSTRALIA;

ACACIA; ACACIA NILOTICA; RIPARIA;

EID: 0038066389     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(03)00009-7     Document Type: Article

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