Developing and optimizing shrub parameters representing sagebrush (<i>Artemisia</i> spp.) ecosystems in the northern Great Basin using the Ecosystem Demography (EDv2.2) model

. Ecosystem dynamic models are useful for understanding ecosystem characteristics over time and space because of their efficiency over direct field measurements and applicability to broad spatial extents. Their application, however, is challenging due to internal model uncertainties and complexities arising from distinct qualities of the ecosystems being analyzed. The sagebrush-steppe ecosystem in western North America, for example, has...