Creating Historical Range of Variation (HRV) Time Series Using Landscape Modeling: Overview and Issues

Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 113-127

  Keane, Robert E ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Creating HRV time series using landscape modeling; FIRE BGC, integrating mechanistic FOREST BGC biogeochemical model; Landscape simulation models, LFSMs, linked processes of fire in spatial domain; Modeling historic variation in future variability, and LANDSUM; Simulated HRV time series, user's content with model behavior; Simulating HRV, the good and the bad; Simulation models, output describing historical variation; Spatial model for HRV, being meaningless without a spatial context; Trade offs, model complexity and tenability; Weaknesses of HRV simulation, and suitable spatial data lack

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878174969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118329726.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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