Spatially-explicit competition indices and the analysis of mixed-species plantings with the Simile modelling environment

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 233, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 295-302

  Vanclay, Jerome K ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acacia; Distance dependent competition index; Eucalyptus; Individual based modelling; Mixed species; Powersim; Simile; Stella; Systems dynamics; Vensim

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

POWERSIM; SIMILE; SYSTEMS DYNAMICS; VENSIM;

FORESTRY;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EVERGREEN TREE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GROWTH RATE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MIXED FOREST; MORTALITY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SHRUB;

ACACIA; EUCALYPTUS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS;

ACACIA; ACACIA PEREGRINA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS PELLITA;

EID: 33748693105     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.05.020     Document Type: Article

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