Projecting landscape changes in southern Chile: Simulation of human and natural processes driving land transformation

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2841-2855

  Marín, Sandra L ^a   Nahuelhual, Laura ^a,b   Echeverría, Cristian ^c   Grant, William E ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Fundacion Centro de los Bosques Nativos FORECOS   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled human and natural systems; Land use change; Land use drivers; Shrublands; Southern Chile; System modeling

Indexed keywords

LAND USE CHANGE; NATURAL SYSTEMS; SHRUBLANDS; SOUTHERN CHILE; SYSTEM MODELING;

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VOLCANOES;

REFORESTATION;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; POPULATION GROWTH; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SECONDARY FOREST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; VOLCANIC ASH;

AGRICULTURE; CHILE; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; GEOLOGY; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY;

CHILE;

EID: 79959659294     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.04.026     Document Type: Article

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