Effects of error in model input: Experiments with a forest patch model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 173, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 159-176

  Lexer, Manfred J ^a   Hönninger, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Impact assessment; Patch model; Spatially explicit simulation; Uncertainty analysis; Vegetation modelling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PATCH DYNAMICS; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SOIL;

EID: 1542758515     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.08.018     Document Type: Article

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