Combining a generic process-based productivity model and a statistical classification method to predict the presence and absence of tree species in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A.

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1787-1796

  Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Waring, Richard H ^b   Schroeder, Todd A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 PG model; Climate change; Douglas fir; Lodgepole pine; Ponderosa pine; Regression tree analysis; Sitka spruce; US Forest Inventory and Analysis; Western hemlock; Western juniper

Indexed keywords

3-PG MODEL; DOUGLAS-FIR; LODGEPOLE PINE; PONDEROSA PINE; REGRESSION-TREE ANALYSIS; SITKA SPRUCE; US FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS; WESTERN HEMLOCK; WESTERN JUNIPER;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

FORESTRY;

CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST INVENTORY; FROST; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

FORESTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PINUS CONTORTA; PSEUDOTSUGA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREES;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

CONIUM; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS OCCIDENTALIS; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PINUS CONTORTA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA;

EID: 66149169963     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.04.029     Document Type: Article

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