Predicting and understanding forest dynamics using a simple tractable model

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 44, 2008, Pages 17018-17022

  Purves, Drew W ^a   Lichstein, Jeremy W ^b   Strigul, Nikolay ^b   Pacala, Stephen W ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community ecology; SORTIE; TASS; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FOREST DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; MICHIGAN; MINNESOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULUS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TSUGA; WISCONSIN;

ACER RUBRUM; ACER SACCHARUM; FRAXINUS NIGRA; QUERCUS RUBRA; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 55949085255     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807754105     Document Type: Article

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