Use of the forest vegetation simulator to quantify disturbance activities in state and transition models

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW-GTR

Volumn , Issue 869, 2012, Pages 143-160

  Weisz, Reuben ^a   Vandendriesche, Don ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; GRASS; SILVICULTURE; SNAG; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873176889     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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