Landscape analysis and simulation shell (Lass)

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 629-639

  Pausas, Juli G ^a   Ramos, Juan I ^a  

^a FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Landscape; Random landscape; Simulation; Spatial pattern; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VEGETATION;

LANDSCAPE; RANDOM LANDSCAPE; SPATIAL PATTERN; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

LANDFORMS;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE; MODEL; SIMULATION; VEGETATION;

EID: 33645647108     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.11.009     Document Type: Article

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