Contrasting outcomes of spatially implicit and spatially explicit models of vegetation dynamics in a forest-shrubland mosaic

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 207, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 327-338

  Perry, George L W ^a   Enright, Neal J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disturbance regime; New Caledonia; Scale; Spatial modelling; Spatial pattern; Succession; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

DISTURBANCE REGIME; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELS; SPATIALLY IMPLICIT MODELS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ECOLOGY;

DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST DYNAMICS; SHRUBLAND; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34548379113     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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