The dynamics of shifting cultivation captured in an extended Constrained Cellular Automata land use model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2302-2309

  Wickramasuriya, Rohan Chandralal ^a,c   Bregt, Arnold K ^b   van Delden, Hedwig ^c   Hagen Zanker, Alex ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Research Institute for Knowledge Systems   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constrained Cellular Automata; Land use model; Shifting cultivation; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED CELLULAR AUTOMATA; CULTIVATION PERIODS; EXTENDED MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND USE CLASS; LAND USE DYNAMICS; LAND USE MODEL; LAND USE MODELS; LAND-USE SYSTEMS; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; LONG TERM; MODEL EXTENSIONS; MULTIPLE SCALE; PLANNING AND DESIGN; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SOIL FERTILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL INTERACTIONS; SRI LANKA; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; STYLIZED FACTS;

AGRICULTURE; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DYNAMICS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

LAND USE;

CALIBRATION; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; CLEARCUTTING; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; REGENERATION; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SOIL FERTILITY; URBAN AREA;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 68349137711     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.05.021     Document Type: Article

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