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ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
Volume 324, Issue -, Pages 45-53Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.01.002
Keywords
Satellite data; Parsimonious; Dynamic vegetation model; Semi-arid; Water fluxes
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
- FEDER through research project INTEGRA [CGL2011-28776-C02]
- FEDER through research project E-HIDROMED [CGL2014-58127-C3]
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Vegetation plays a key role in catchment's water balance, particularly in semi-arid regions that are generally water-controlled ecosystems. Nowadays, many of the available dynamic vegetation models are quite complex and they have high parametrical requirements. However, in operational applications the available information is quite limited. Therefore parsimonious models together with available satellite information can be valuable tools to predict vegetation dynamics. In this work, we focus on a parsimonious model aimed to simulate vegetation and hydrological dynamics, using both field measurements and satellite information to implement it. The results suggest that the model is able to adequately reproduce the dynamics of vegetation as well as the soil moisture variations. In other words, it has been shown that a parsimonious model with simple equations can achieve good results in general terms and it is possible to assimilate satellite and field observations for the model implementation. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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