When relationships estimated in the past cannot be used to predict the future: Using mechanistic models to predict landscape ecological dynamics in a changing world

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1429-1437

  Gustafson, Eric J ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Disturbances; Empirical modeling; Forests; Global changes; Landscape modeling; Mechanistic modeling; Phenomenological modeling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST; LANDSCAPE; NATURAL RESOURCE;

EID: 84884819418     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9927-4     Document Type: Article

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