Simulating structural forest patterns with a forest gap model: A model evaluation

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 181, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 161-172

  Risch, Anita C ^a   Heiri, Caroline ^b   Bugmann, Harald ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b Mountain Forest Ecology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ForClim; Forest succession; Growth function; Long term forest data; Validation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELS; FOREST GAP MODELS; STRUCTURAL FOREST PATTERNS; TREE POPULATION DYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARKS; RELIABILITY; SEED; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

GAP DYNAMICS; MODEL VALIDATION; MONTANE FOREST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STAND STRUCTURE;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; LAND USE; PARAMETERS; PLANTS; RELIABILITY; SEEDLINGS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAUBUNDEN; SWISS NATIONAL PARK; SWITZERLAND; WORLD;

EID: 7444250887     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.06.029     Document Type: Article

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