Implementation of a Marauding Insect Module (MIM, version 1.0) in the Integrated BIosphere Simulator (IBIS, version 2.6b4) dynamic vegetation-land surface model

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1243-1261

  Landry, Jean Sébastien ^a,e   Price, David T ^b   Ramankutty, Navin ^c   Parrott, Lael ^d   Damon Matthews, H ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CARBON CYCLE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; EVERGREEN TREE; LAND SURFACE; MORTALITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SATELLITE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CANADA;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; IBIS; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84964319191     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-1243-2016     Document Type: Article

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