Model-based analysis of the influence of ecological processes on forest point pattern formation-A case study

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 666-678

  Pommerening, Arne ^a   LeMay, Valerie ^b   Stoyan, Dietrich ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecological processes; Individual based models; Sensitivity analysis; Shot noise competition field; Spatio temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST STRUCTURE; GROWTH PROCESS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; INITIAL STRUCTURES; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL-BASED ANALYSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL PARAMETERS; OBSERVATION PERIOD; PLANT COMPETITION; POINT PATTERNS; REFERENCE SCENARIOS; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME-SERIES DATA; VARIOGRAMS;

COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING; REFORESTATION; TIME SERIES;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GAP DYNAMICS; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; REGENERATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 78650698257     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.10.019     Document Type: Article

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