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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"landscape model"”.
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Swamp ecology in a dynamic coastal landscape: an investigation through field study and simulation modeling
… a two-species individual-based forest succession model (IBM) of a coastal swamp. The IBM followed the weekly growth, mortality, and reproduction of individuals of Taxodium distichum and Nyssa aquatica trees in a 1-km2 spatial grid, using historical time-series of stage and salinity data as inputs. …
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Landscape forest modeling of the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico.
This thesis contributes to modeling the dynamics of forest community response to environmental gradients and disturbances over a mountain landscape. A gap model (FACET) was parameterized for species of various forest types (Tabonuco, Colorado, Dwarf and Palm), for many terrain conditions and was …
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Analysis and pattern mapping of organic interfaces by means of seismic geophysical technologies to investigate archaeological palaeolandscapes beneath the Southern North Sea
Investigating the archaeology of submerged landscapes beneath many metres of sea and buried under modern sands requires an understanding of the terrestrial surface as it may have been prior to the inundation. To do this, environmental evidence is required from contextualised in-situ locations and …
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THE IMPACT OF SEA-LEVEL RISE ON COASTAL WETLANDS USING IN-SITU MESOCOSM EXPERIMENTS, LANDSCAPE MODELING, AND TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE MAPPING
… to increased inundation. I applied a mechanistic landscape model to predict coastal wetland change impacted by sea-level rise in comparison to vulnerability assessments from traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). By integrating the biophysical model predictions with land-based, generational …
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Fitness Landscapes, Genetic Interactions, and the Fitness of Hybrids
… policy, and in crop and animal breeding. Fitness landscapes are simple mathematical models that generate a rich variety of context-dependent genetic interactions, making them a useful tool for studying the ways in which these interactions affect hybrid fitness. In this thesis, I will explore a …
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Assessing the effects of prescribed fire on foraging bats at Mammoth Cave National Park after the arrival of White-nose Syndrome
… Specifically, the effect of WNS across forest landscapes is unclear in relation to prescribed fire. Mammoth Cave National Park (MACA) has employed a prescribed fire regime since 2002 and WNS was detected on MACA in 2013. Bat activity was monitored across burned and unburned sites at MACA before …
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Understanding Forest Landscape Response to Global Climatic Change: An Uncertainty Evaluation Based on Spatial Modeling
… (e.g., species richness and diversity); forest landscape composition and pattern; and biome distributions. In this study, potential forest landscape responses in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) due to climatic change were examined based on hierarchical responses of the forest ecosystem at …
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Impacts of forest harvesting on the performance of soil-landscape modelling in a radiata pine forest, northern New Zealand
… site-specific forest management practices. Soil-landscape modelling has been identified as a potentially useful tool for collecting this information. However, its performance in plantation forest environments - where the impacts of forest management on soils can be considerable - has not yet been …
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Post-fire carbon, fuels, and vegetation dynamics in wet temperate forests: implications for future fire and management in the Pacific Northwest
… Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator to model potential fire behavior and effects in each field plot under two fire weather scenarios. I found that initial fuel variability influenced some aspects of potential fire behavior and effects in reburns under moderate fire weather conditions. …