Soil water availability effects on the distribution of 20 tree species in western North America

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 313, Issue , 2014, Pages 144-152

  Mathys, Amanda ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Waring, Richard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 PG model; Available soil water holding capacity; Decision tree model; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; SOIL MOISTURE;

3-PG MODELS; AVAILABLE SOIL WATERS; DECISION TREE MODELING; DECISION TREE MODELS; MAXIMUM LEAF AREA INDEX; SOIL WATER AVAILABILITY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84888872053     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.11.005     Document Type: Article

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