Predicting a 'tree change' in Australia's tropical savannas: Combining different types of models to understand complex ecosystem behaviour

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 2565-2575

  Liedloff, Adam C ^a   Smith, Carl S ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Fire management; Flames; Grazing management; Probabilistic modelling; Simulation modelling; Tree density; Woody thickening

Indexed keywords

FIRE MANAGEMENT; FLAMES; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; PROBABILISTIC MODELLING; SIMULATION MODELLING; TREE DENSITY; WOODY THICKENING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; ECOSYSTEMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SAVANNA; SOIL PROPERTY; TREE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77956444357     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.07.022     Document Type: Article

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