An ecological classification of forest landscape simulation models: Tools and strategies for understanding broad-scale forested ecosystems

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 491-505

  Scheller, Robert M ^a   Mladenoff, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem process models; Forest models; Gap models; Landscape ecology; Simulation models

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREE;

EID: 34248377754     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-9048-4     Document Type: Review

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