Aggregation of individual trees and patches in forest succession models: Capturing variability with height structured, random, spatial distributions

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 213-226

  Lischke, Heike ^a,b   Löffler, Thomas J ^a   Fischlin, Andreas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Forest succession; Individual based model; Model simplification; Patch model; Spatial distribution; Stochastic model; Structured population

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST DYNAMICS; PATCH DYNAMICS; SUCCESSION;

EID: 0344699459     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1998.1378     Document Type: Article

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