Simulated changes in shallow groundwater and vegetation distributions under different reservoir operations scenarios

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 192-207

  Rains, Mark Cable ^a,b   Mount, Jeffrey F ^a   Larsen, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' Theorem; Bayesian model averaging; Bayesian model selection; Groundwater modeling; MODFLOW; Reservoir operations; Shallow groundwater; Vegetation distributions; Vegetation modeling

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; MODELING; RESERVOIR; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA; LITTLE STONY CREEK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1242321306     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5307     Document Type: Article

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