Capsis: An open software framework and community for forest growth modelling

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-233

  Dufour Kowalski, Samuel ^a   Courbaud, Benoît ^b   Dreyfus, Philippe ^c   Meredieu, Céline ^d   De Coligny, François ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Cemagref   (France)

^c French National Institute for Agriculture   (France)

^d UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

Author keywords

Forestry; Modelling framework; Silviculture; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FORESTRY MODELING; GROWTH RATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SILVICULTURE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84862014007     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-011-0140-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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