Towards a standard for the individual-based modeling of plant populations: Self-thinning and the field-of-neighborhood approach

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 39-54

  Berger, Uta ^a   Hildenbrandt, Hanno ^a   Grimm, Volker ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Field of neighborhood; Individual based model; Mangrove; Phenomenological description; Plant population; Self thinning; Skewed size distribution; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248136767     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2002.tb00079.x     Document Type: Article

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