Fire and forest landscapes in the Georgia Piedmont: An assessment of spatial modeling assumptions

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-56

  Wimberly, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Forest communities; Habitat; LANDIS; Landscape dynamics; Seed dispersal; Simulation modeling; Structural analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4544329766     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.11.020     Document Type: Article

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