Validation of a multispecies forest dynamics model using 50-year growth from Eucalyptus forests in eastern Australia

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3261-3270

  Ngugi, Michael R ^a   Botkin, Daniel B ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Biomass production; Climate change; Ecological restoration; Forecasting forest growth; Gap model

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; BASAL AREA; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; COMPUTER MODELS; DATA SETS; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; ECOLOGICAL FORECASTING; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; EUCALYPTUS FORESTS; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST SUCCESSION; GAP MODEL; GROWTH DYNAMICS; INPUT DATAS; MIXED FORESTS; MIXED SPECIES; MULTI-SPECIES; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; SCLEROPHYLL FORESTS; STATE FORESTS; TEST DATA; TIME-SERIES DATA; TREE DENSITY; TREE DIAMETER; TREE HEIGHT; UNEVEN-AGED;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION; DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; PLANT EXTRACTS;

ECOLOGY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BASAL AREA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DIAMETER; GAP DYNAMICS; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT RESTORATION; MODEL VALIDATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUB; SUCCESSION; TIME SERIES;

AUSTRALIA; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORECASTS; FORESTS; GROWTH; PLANTS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 80051927738     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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