Impact of uncertainty in tree mortality on the predictions of a tropical forest dynamics model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 218, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 290-306

  Wernsdorfer H ^a   Rossi, V ^a   Cornu, G ^a   Oddou Muratorio, S ^b   Gourlet Fleury, S ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b French National Institute for Agriculture   (France)

Author keywords

Felling; Individual based spatially explicit model; Input factor bound; Parameter tuning; Sensitivity analysis; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; DYNAMICS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; MODAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEED; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STAGES;

FELLING; FOREST DYNAMICS; FRENCH GUIANA; INDIVIDUAL-BASED SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODEL; INPUT FACTOR BOUND; INPUT FACTORS; LOCAL SENSITIVITY; LONG TERM; MODEL INPUT; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODEL PREDICTIONS; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; PARAMETER TUNING; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RELATIVE IMPACT; SUB-MODELS; TREE DIAMETERS; TREE POPULATION; TREE-MORTALITY; TROPICAL FORESTS; VARIANCE DECOMPOSITION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECOMPOSITION; DEMOGRAPHY; FOREST DYNAMICS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; JUVENILE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; TROPICAL FOREST; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECAY; FELLING; FORESTS; JUVENILE WOOD; MORTALITY; SENSITIVITY; TREES;

CAESALPINIOIDEAE; DICORYNIA GUIANENSIS;

EID: 52349115686     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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