Forest gap dynamics and the Ising model

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-75

  Schlicht, Robert ^a   Iwasa, Yoh ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Canopy gap; Forest ecology; Ising model; Lattice model; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GAP DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; MODELING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CANOPY; FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; JAPAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TREES;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; IBARAKI; JAPAN; KANTO; OGAWA FOREST RESERVE;

EID: 3242718667     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.04.027     Document Type: Article

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