Modelling vegetation dynamics in heterogeneous pasture-woodland landscapes

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-18

  Gillet, François ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cattle selectivity; Climate change; Landscape diversity; Landscape dynamics; Silvopastoral ecosystems; Spatial heterogeneity; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CANNING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FORESTRY; OCEAN HABITATS; VEGETATION; WELL STIMULATION; WOOD;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ANNUAL TEMPERATURE; APPLIED (CO); COMPARTMENT MODELS; COMPLEX INTERACTIONS; DETERMINISTIC MODELING; ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); FORAGE PRODUCTION; HABITAT USE; HERB LAYER; HIERARCHICAL LEVELS; HIGH SELECTIVITY; IN ORDER; INITIAL VALUES; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES; LONG TERM; MANAGEMENT UNIT; MODEL SIMULATIONS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERNS; TREE REGENERATION; UTILIZATION RATES; VEGETATION DIVERSITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AGRICULTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HERB; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PASTURE; REGENERATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODLAND;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; FRAGMENTATION; HERBS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TREES; WOOD;

BOS;

EID: 48149110491     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.05.013     Document Type: Article

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