A neutral vs. non-neutral parametrizations of a physiological forest gap model

Martin Kazmierczak, Thorsten Wiegand and Andreas Huth

Ecological Modelling, 2014, vol. 288, issue C, 94-102

Abstract: Tropical forests are vital ecosystems which provide numerous ecological functions and forest models can be used to simulate their dynamics. However, due to the high species diversity of tropical forests and the common lack of detailed knowledge about these species, simulating the behavior of each species separately is not feasible. Therefore, species with common characteristics are usually aggregated into species groups.

Keywords: Functional groups; Species grouping; Aggregation; Forest model; Neutral theory; Plant functional types (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.05.002

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