Predicting landscape vegetation dynamics using state-and-transition simulation models

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW-GTR

Volumn , Issue 869, 2012, Pages 5-22

  Daniel, Colin J ^a   Frid, Leonardo ^b  

^a Apex Resource Management Solutions Ltd   (Canada)

^b Apex Resource Management Solutions Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological model; Ecological restoration; Ecosystem management; Landscape ecology; Path Landscape Model; State and transition simulation model; STSM; TELSA; VDDT; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANGELAND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WETLAND; WOODLAND;

EID: 84873207569     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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