The site-scale processes affect species distribution predictions of forest landscape models

Yu Liang, Hong S. He, Wen J. Wang, Jacob S. Fraser, ZhiWei Wu and Jiawei Xu

Ecological Modelling, 2015, vol. 300, issue C, 89-101

Abstract: Forest landscape models (FLMs) are important tools for testing basic ecological theory and for exploring forest changes at landscape and regional scales. However, the ability of these models to accurately predict changes in tree species’ distributions and their spatial pattern may be significantly affected by the formulation of site-scale processes that simulate gap-level succession including seedling establishment, tree growth, competition, and mortality. Thus, the objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of site-scale processes on landscape-scale predictions of tree species’ distributions and spatial patterns.

Keywords: Forest landscape models (FLMs); Site-scale processes; Stand-scale processes; LANDIS; Species distribution predictions; Spatial pattern (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.01.007

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