Disentangling the formation of contrasting tree-line physiognomies combining model selection and Bayesian parameterization for simulation models

American Naturalist

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Martínez, Isabel ^a   Wiegand, Thorsten ^a   Julio Camarero, J ^b   Batllori, Enric ^c   Gutiérrez, Emilia ^c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forest limit; Individual based model; Pinus uncinata; Pyrenees; Spatially explicit population model

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISPERSAL; ECOTONE; FACILITATION; GROWTH RATE; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; SELECTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREELINE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PINE; SPAIN; TREE;

ALTITUDE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PINUS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPAIN; TREES;

PYRENEES;

PINUS UNCINATA;

EID: 79955408815     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659623     Document Type: Article

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