A grazing model for simulating the impact of historical land management decisions in sensitive landscapes: Model design and validation

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1096-1113

  Thomson, Amanda M ^a   Simpson, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domestic livestock; Grazing management; Historical landscapes; Iceland; Spatio temporal model; Utilisation; Validation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LAND USE;

DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; HISTORICAL LANDSCAPES; ICELAND; SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODEL; UTILIZATION; VALIDATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

BIOMASS; DATA QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; VEGETATION;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 33747729637     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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