Of climate and its resulting tree growth: Simulating the productivity of temperate forests

Friedrich J. Bohn, Karin Frank and Andreas Huth

Ecological Modelling, 2014, vol. 278, issue C, 9-17

Abstract: We parametrize the maintenance respiration of a single tree depending on reference climate parameters (light, temperature and precipitation) and the observed stem diameter increase resulting from that climate. The simulated biomass increment results from photosynthesis under the given climate scenario and is then reduced by maintenance and growth respiration. We incorporate this new carbon allocation algorithm into the established individual based gap model FORMIND to reproduce the biomass development of typical central European forest stands.

Keywords: Forest growth simulation; Parametrization; Yield table; FORMIND; Temperate forest; Plant functional type (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.01.021

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