Modelling responses of pine savannas to climate change and large-scale disturbance

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-82

  Beckage, Brian ^a   Gross, Louis J ^b   Platt, William J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; Forest; Global warming; Grassland; Hurricane; Longleaf pine; Lotka Volterra model; Pinus palustris

Indexed keywords

PINUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 33750325310     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1658/1402-2001(2006)9[75:MROPST]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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