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CHAPTER CONTENTS:
Preface
1. Development of forest and landscape modeling approaches
David J. Mladenoff and William L. Baker
2. Modeling the competitive dynamics and distribution of tree species along moisture gradients
John P. Caspersen, John A. Silander, Jr., Charles D. Canham and Stephen W. Pascala
3. Spatial and temporal impacts of adjacent areas on the dynamics of species diversity in a primary forest
Jianguo Liu, Kalan Ickes, Peter S. Ashton, James V. La Frankie and N. Manokaran
4. Scaling fine-scale processes to large-scale patterns using models derived from models: meta-models
Dean L. Urban, Miguel F. Acevedo and Steven L. Garman
5. Simulating landscape vegetation dynamics of Bryce Canyon National Park with the vital attributes/fuzzy systems model VAFS/LANDSIM
David W. Roberts and David W. Betz
6. Design and behavior of LANDIS, an object-oriented model of forest landscape disturbance and succession
David J. Mladenoff and Hong S. He
7. Predicting forest fire effects at landscape scales
Robert H. Gardner, William H. Romme and Monica G. Turner
8. Mechanistic modeling of landscape fire patterns
Mark A. Finney
9. Achieving sustainable forest structures on fire-prone landscapes while pursuing multiple goals
John Sessions, K. Norman Johnson, Jerry F. Franklin and John T. Gabriel
10. Modeling the driving factors and ecological consequences of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Virginia H. Dale and Scott M. Pearson
11. Spatial simulation of the effects of human and natural disturbance regimes on landscape structure
William L. Baker
12. HARVEST: linking timber harvesting strategies to landscape patterns
Eric J. Gustafson and Thomas R. Crow
13. Progress and future directions in spatial modeling of forest landscapes
William L. Baker and David J. Mladenoff. |
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