Advances and limitations of individual-based models to analyze and predict dynamics of mangrove forests: A review

Aquatic Botany - Tập 89 - Trang 260-274 - 2008
Uta Berger1, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy2, Thomas W. Doyle3, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas4,5, Norman C. Duke6, Martha L. Fontalvo-Herazo7, Hanno Hildenbrandt8, Nico Koedam5, Ulf Mehlig9, Cyril Piou1, Robert R. Twilley2
1Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences, TU Dresden, P.O. 1117, 01735 Tharandt, Germany
2Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
3U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, 700 Cajundome Boulevard., Lafayette, LA 70506, USA
4Biocomplexity Research Focus (Complexité et Dynamique des Systèmes Tropicaux), Département de Biologie des Organismes, Université Libre de Bruxelles – ULB, Campus du Solbosch, CP 169, Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
5Biocomplexity Research Focus, c/o Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Mangrove Management Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel – VUB, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
6Centre for Marine Studies, Marine Botany Group, c/- Gehrmann Building (60), Level 8, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
7Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Fahrenheitstrasse 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany
8Theoretical Biology Group, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands
9Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Campus Bragança, Alameda Leandro Ribeiro s/n, Bragança, PA 68600-000, Brazil

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