Looking for the future in the past: Long-term change in socioecological systems

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 241, Issue , 2012, Pages 42-53

  Barton, C Michael ^a   Ullah, Isaac I T ^a   Bergin, Sean M ^a   Mitasova, Helena ^b   Sarjoughian, Hessam ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Agricultural land use; Archaeology; Coupled modeling; Prehistoric Mediterranean; Simulation; Socio ecological systems; Surface process modeling

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODELING; AGRICULTURAL LAND-USE; ARCHAEOLOGY; COUPLED MODELING; PREHISTORIC MEDITERRANEAN; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROCESS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; LAND USE;

HISTORY;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREHISTORIC; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

EID: 84864065978     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.02.010     Document Type: Article

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