An iterative site-scale approach to calibrate and corroborate successional processes within a forest landscape model

Lucia A. Fitts, Jacob S. Fraser, Brian R. Miranda, Grant M. Domke, Matthew B. Russell and Brian R. Sturtevant

Ecological Modelling, 2023, vol. 477, issue C

Abstract: Forest landscape simulation models (FLM) have been extensively used for projecting ecosystem dynamics and carbon fluxes. However, more guidance and methods for formal calibration and corroboration of FLMs are needed to ensure higher fidelity results from these models. We developed a novel systematic methodology for calibrating and corroborating a FLM at the grid-cell scale using empirical estimates from the national forest inventory in the United States (US) which uses an equal probability sample design.

Keywords: LANDIS-II; Density succession; USDA Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data; Calibration; Equivalence tests; Forest landscape model; Model evaludation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110274

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