Chapter Eighteen Uncertainty and Sensitivity Issues in Process-based Models of Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Developments in Integrated Environmental Assessment

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 307-327

  Larocque, G R ^a   Bhatti, J S ^b   Gordon, A M ^c   Luckai, N ^d   Wattenbach, M ^e   Liu, J ^f   Peng, C ^g   Arp, P A ^h   Liu, S ^f   Zhang, C F ^h   Komarov, A ⁱ   Grabarnik, P ⁱ   Sun, J ^g   White, T ^j  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^j PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

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Author keywords

error propagation; models; northern forest ecosystems; sensitivity analyses; structure process formulations; uncertainties

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449119705     PISSN: 1574101X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-101X(08)00618-2     Document Type: Review

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