Spatial pattern induced by asymmetric competition: A modeling approach

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 147-175

  Picard, Nicolas ^a   Bar Hen, Avner ^a   Engref, Alain Franc ^b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b AgroParisTech   (France)

Author keywords

Asymmetric competition; Forest dynamics; French guiana; Gap models; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992256255     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2001.tb00054.x     Document Type: Article

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