Simulated Importance of Dispersal, Disturbance, and Landscape History in Long-Term Ecosystem Change in the Big Woods of Minnesota

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 398-414

  Berland, Adam ^a   Shuman, Bryan ^a,b   Manson, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Woods; fire; forest expansion; LANDIS II; Minnesota; paleoecology; spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PALEOECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; WOODLAND;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953194742     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9418-x     Document Type: Article

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