Approaches to incorporating climate change effects in state and transition simulation models of vegetation

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW-GTR

Volumn , Issue 869, 2012, Pages 161-171

  Kerns, Becky K ^a   Hemstrom, Miles A ^b,c   Conklin, David ^d   Yospin, Gabriel I ^e   Johnson, Bart ^f   Bachelet, Dominique ^d   Bridgham, Scott ^f  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

^e MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coupled models; Dynamic global vegetation models; State and transition simulation model; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH WORK; SOFTWARE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873117459     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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