A simulation study to assess the sensitivity of a forest health monitoring network to outbreaks of defoliating insects

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 122, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 289-307

  Edgar, Christopher B ^a   Burk, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Defoliation; Forest health monitoring; Latin hypercube design; Sensitivity; Simulation modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FOREST HEALTH MONITORING; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; LATIN HYPERCUBE DESIGN;

FORESTRY;

DEFOLIATION; FOREST HEALTH; HEALTH MONITORING; INSECT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFOLIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INSECT; LANDSCAPE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

DEFOLIATION; FORESTRY; INSECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 33750606362     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-9181-6     Document Type: Article

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