Do small-grain processes matter for landscape scale questions? Sensitivity of a forest landscape model to the formulation of tree growth rate

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 697-711

  Elkin, Ché ^a   Reineking, Björn ^b   Bigler, Christof ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest disturbances; Gap model; Model uncertainty; Tree growth

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DISTURBANCE; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

EID: 84859836804     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9718-3     Document Type: Article

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