1st Edition
Applying Ecosystem and Landscape Models in Natural Resource Management
By Robert E. Keane
Copyright 2020
236 Pages
by
CRC Press
236 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
236 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
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Managing today’s lands is becoming an increasingly difficult task. Complex ecological interactions across multiple spatiotemporal scales create diverse landscape responses to management actions that are often novel, counter-intuitive and unexpected. To make matters worse, exotic invasions, human land use, and global climate change complicate this complexity and make past observational ecological... Read more
Preface. Introduction – Who needs this book? Modeling Fundamentals – What you need to know to use this book. Project Design – How to plan a modeling project. Initialization – How to begin a simulation. Parameterization – How to tune the model for local applications. Calibration – How to tuning the model for realism. Validation – Determining model uncertainty. Execution – Implementing the model project. Analysis – Evaluating model results. Issues – Things to think about when using models.
Biography
Robert E. Keane has been a Research Ecologist with the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory since 1994. His most recent research includes developing ecological computer simulation models for the exploring landscape, fire, and climate dynamics; conducting basic research in wildland fuel science; and investigating the ecology and restoration of whitebark pine.
