State-and-transition simulation models: a framework for forecasting landscape change

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1413-1423

  Daniel, Colin J ^a,b   Frid, Leonardo ^b   Sleeter, Benjamin M ^c   Fortin, Marie Josée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Apex Resource Management Solutions Ltd   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

land use change; landscape dynamics; landscape ecology; Markov chain; modelling; spatial; ST Sim; stochastic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973614652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12597     Document Type: Article

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