Analysis of pattern-process interactions based on landscape models-Overview, general concepts, and methodological issues

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 199, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 505-516

  Schroder B ^a   Seppelt, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inverse modelling; Landscape analysis; Landscape modelling; Pattern description; Pattern process interrelationship; Simulation; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INVERSE MODELING; LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE MODELING; PATTERN DESCRIPTION; PATTERN-PROCESS INTERRELATIONSHIP; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

LAND USE;

LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750606551     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.05.036     Document Type: Article

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