A spatially explicit model to predict future landscape composition of aspen woodlands under various management scenarios

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-191

  Strand, Eva K ^a   Vierling, Lee A ^a   Bunting, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire regimes; Landscape dynamics; Prescribed fire; Successional model; TELSA; VDDT; Western aspen

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DYNAMICS; EARTH SCIENCES; FORESTRY; MANAGEMENT; OCEAN HABITATS; ROTATION; VEGETATION; WATER;

FIRE REGIMES; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; PRESCRIBED FIRE; SUCCESSIONAL MODEL; TELSA; VDDT; WESTERN ASPEN;

FIRES;

BIODIVERSITY; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FIRE HISTORY; HABITAT LOSS; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SUCCESSION; WILDFIRE; WOODLAND;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 56949094879     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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