A LANDIS-II extension for incorporating land use and other disturbances
Forest landscape models (FLMs) are widely used to examine the influence of disturbances on long-term and broad-scale forest ecosystem dynamics. However, FLMs are not well-suited to simulating some types of management or disturbance regimes, including land-use change. Consequently, there are situatio...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Environmental modelling & software : with environment data news 2016-01, Vol.75, p.202-205 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Forest landscape models (FLMs) are widely used to examine the influence of disturbances on long-term and broad-scale forest ecosystem dynamics. However, FLMs are not well-suited to simulating some types of management or disturbance regimes, including land-use change. Consequently, there are situations in which a researcher may wish to estimate the timing and location of events externally, either from a different model, empirical observations, or some other source, and then incorporate them into an FLM. We present Land Use Plus (LU+), an extension for the LANDIS-II FLM that allows users to integrate externally-developed, spatially and temporally explicit representations of land use or other disturbance into simulations. LU+ allows users to model the proximate effects of these events on forest composition and biomass, as well as subsequent dynamics, including tree establishment and the potential for future management. LU+ will significantly increase the breadth of research questions for which LANDIS-II may be appropriately used.
•Land Use Plus (LU+) allows LANDIS-II users to integrate externally developed maps of land use or other disturbances.•LU+ allows users to simulate forest protection and conservation easements.•LU+ allows users to simulate tree planting at predetermined times and locations |
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ISSN: | 1364-8152 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.10.021 |