The fireBGCv2 landscape fire succession model: A research simulation platform for exploring fire and vegetation dynamics

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report RMRS-GTR

Volumn , Issue 255, 2011, Pages 1-139

  Keane, Robert E ^a   Loehman, Rachel A ^b   Holsinger, Lisa M ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b Research Ecologist   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate Change; Gap Model; Mechanistic; Multi Scale; Process Modeling; Simulation; Spatially Explicit

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH WORK; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STAND DYNAMICS; SUCCESSION; TRAINING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE;

EID: 80052415527     PISSN: 02775786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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