Process models and model-data fusion in dendroecology

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Guiot, Joël ^a   Boucher, Etienne ^b   Gea Izquierdo, Guillermo ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calibration; Carbon fertilization; Climate; Data assimilation; Dendrochronology; Inversion; Process model; Tree growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934940403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00052     Document Type: Review

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