Applying Ecosystem and Landscape Models in Natural Resource Management

ISBN-13: 9780367779290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str.

Robert E. Keane

Opis

This book provides natural resource professionals with the knowledge to properly use ecological models and then to interpret their results in natural resource management applications.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.