Impacts of daily weather variability on simulations of the Canadian boreal forest

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3250-3260

  Stratton, Tana ^a   Price, David T ^b   Gajewski, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Canada; Climate change; Climate variability; Forest succession; Gap model

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; CANADA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FOREST SUCCESSION; GAP MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; ECOTONE; GAP DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RESOLUTION; STAND STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION; TIMESCALE; WEATHER;

CANADA;

EID: 80051918477     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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