The risk of peat erosion from climate change: Land management combinations-an assessment with bayesian belief networks

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 962-976

  Hough, Rupert L ^a   Towers, Willie ^a   Aalders, Inge ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blanket bog; Causal nets; Cause effect models; Expert opinion; Mire; Probabilisticmodeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957962450     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2010.511964     Document Type: Article

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