An open-source spatio-dynamic wetland model of plant community responses to hydrological pressures

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 306, Issue , 2015, Pages 326-333

  Martínez López, Javier ^a   Martínez Fernández, Julia ^a,b   Naimi, Babak ^c,d   Carreño, María F ^a   Esteve, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Irrigated agriculture; Open source software; Plant communities; Remote sensing; Semiarid wetlands; Spatio dynamic modelling

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; CATCHMENTS; DYNAMIC MODELS; OPEN SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS; WETLANDS;

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; HYDROLOGICAL ALTERATIONS; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; MEDITERRANEAN CATCHMENT; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SEMI-ARID WETLANDS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EPHEMERAL STREAM; GRASS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

EID: 84929169990     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.11.024     Document Type: Article

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