Reconstructing forest savanna dynamics in Africa using a cellular automata model, FORSAT

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3305, Issue , 2004, Pages 484-491

  Favier, Charly ^a,b   Dubois, Marc A ^a  

^a SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

^b LODYC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; REFORESTATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; VEGETATION;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODELING; ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FIRE FREQUENCIES; HUMID TROPICAL FOREST; STOCHASTIC CELLULAR AUTOMATON MODEL; VEGETATION SUCCESSIONS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 33750613911     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30479-1_50     Document Type: Article

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