Krummholz and grassland coexistence above the forest-line in the Krkonoše Mountains: Grid-based model of shrub dynamics

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 213, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 293-307

  Wild, Jan ^a   Winkler, Eckart ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition colonization trade off; Individual based model; Pattern oriented modelling; Pinus mugo; Spatial explicit

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

INDIVIDUAL BASED MODELS; KRUMMHOLZ ABUNDANCE; PATTERN ORIENTED MODELING; PINUS MUGO; SPATIAL EXPLICIT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COEXISTENCE; GRASS; GRASSLAND; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; PHOTOGRAPH; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SHRUB; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREELINE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; KARKONOSZE MOUNTAINS; SUDETES;

PINUS MUGO; POACEAE;

EID: 41149181154     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.12.013     Document Type: Article

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