The effects of disturbance based management on the dynamics of Mediterranean vegetation: A hierarchical and spatially explicit modeling approach

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 2525-2535

  Bar Massada, Avi ^a   Carmel, Yohay ^a   Koniak, Gili ^b   Noy Meir, Imanuel ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Disturbances; Mediterranean; Plant functional types; Spatially explicit

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX INTERACTION; COMPLEX RESPONSE; CONTINUOUS TRANSITIONS; DISTURBANCES; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; FIRE RISKS; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; LAND MANAGERS; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MEDITERRANEAN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN VEGETATION; MODEL SIMULATION; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPES; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SIMULATION RESULT; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

SIMULATORS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 69049104540     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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