Coupling ecosystem and landscape models to study the effects of plot number and location on prediction of forest landscape change

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1031-1044

  Liang, Yu ^a   He, Hong S ^a,b   Yang, Jian ^a   Wu, Zhi Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Changbai mountains; Ecosystem and landscape modeling; Environmental heterogeneity; LANDIS; Landscape prediction; Plot location; Plot number

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; LAND TYPE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STAND STRUCTURE; TREE;

CHANGBAI MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84864279818     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9759-7     Document Type: Article

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