Plant propagation fronts and wind dispersal: An analytical model to upscale from seconds to decades using superstatistics

American Naturalist

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 468-479

  Thompson, Sally ^a   Katul, Gabriel ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical modeling; Vegetation migration; WALD; Wind dispersion

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROWTH RATE; MIGRATION; MOVEMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; SEED DISPERSAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; VEGETATION COVER; WIND POWER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT SEED; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREE; WIND;

GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEEDS; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WIND;

EID: 40949092356     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/528966     Document Type: Article

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