Understanding alpine tree line dynamics: An individual-based model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 218, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 235-246

  Wallentin, Gudrun ^a,b   Tappeiner, Ulrike ^b,d   Strobl, Josef ^a,c   Tasser, Erich ^d  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpine tree line; Forest regeneration pattern; Individual based model; Land use change; Spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; SEED; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACE OPTICS;

ALPINE TREE LINE; CENTRAL ALPS; CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; DISPERSAL KERNEL; DYNAMIC PROCESSES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES; EXPLICIT MODELING; FOREST REGENERATION; FOREST REGENERATION PATTERN; GROUND VEGETATION; INDIVIDUAL TREES; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELLING; INPUT PARAMETERS; KEY PROCESSES; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGES; MAIN PROCESS; NORWAY SPRUCE; OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SEED DISPERSAL KERNEL; SEED PRODUCTION; SPATIAL CHANGES; SPATIALLY-EXPLICIT MODEL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; TREE LINES;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE CHANGE; MODEL TEST; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; REGENERATION; REMOTE SENSING; SEED PRODUCTION; SUCCESSION; TREELINE;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATES; DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; PARAMETERS; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; SEEDS; TREES;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 52449104817     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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