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Modeling Tree and Grass Dynamics: From Demographic to Spatially Explicit Models

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  1. Biogéochimie et écologie des milieux continentaux (UMR 7618), Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d’Ulm, 75230, Paris cedex 05, France

    Jacques Gignoux

  2. Laboratoire d’écologie des Sols Tropicaux (UMR 137), 32 Avenue H. Varagnat, 93143, Bondy cedex, France

    Sébastien Barot

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  1. Biogéochimie et écologie des milieux continentaux, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75230, Paris cedex 05, France

    Luc Abbadie  & Jacques Gignoux  & 

  2. Laboratoire d’écologie microbienne, CNRS-Université Lyon 1, Bâtiment Gregor Mendel, 69622, Villeurbanne cedex, France

    Xavier Le Roux

  3. IRD, 01 BP 182, Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso

    Michel Lepage

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Gignoux, J., Barot, S. (2006). Modeling Tree and Grass Dynamics: From Demographic to Spatially Explicit Models. In: Abbadie, L., Gignoux, J., Le Roux, X., Lepage, M. (eds) Lamto. Ecological Studies, vol 179. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-33857-8_19

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