Modeling wood encroachment in abandoned grasslands in the Eifel National Park - Model description and testing

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Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Hudjetz, Silvana ^a   Lennartz, Gottfried ^a   Krämer, Klara ^a   Roß Nickoll, Martina ^a   Gergs, André ^a   Preuss, Thomas G ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FOREST; GERMANY; GERMINATION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT; HERB; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RED DEER; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE; UNGULATE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOOD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CERVUS ELAPHUS; POACEAE; UNGULATA;

GERMANY; GRASSLAND; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WOOD;

EID: 84916910221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113827     Document Type: Article

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