Implications of mechanistic modeling of drought effects on growth and competition in forest landscape models

Ecosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Gustafson, Eric J ^a   De Bruijn, Arjan M G ^a,b   Miranda, Brian R ^a   Sturtevant, Brian R ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought induced mortality; First principles; Forest succession; LANDIS II; Mechanistic landscape model; PnET Succession; Water stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973879899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1253     Document Type: Article

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