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- Title
Forest Succession Models.
- Authors
Shugart, Jr., H. H.; West, D. C.
- Abstract
The article presents information on different models for studying forest succession. Recently, ecologists interested in studying succession began using mathematical models of forest dynamics. By the early 1960s, forest biologists at several institutions were using digital computers to design mathematical models of changes in forest composition. It is stated that simulations in the early 1960s were primarily aimed at production budgets, element cycling in plant-soil systems, and trophic-level dynamics. Three forest simulation models discussed in the article include Tree models, Gap models, and Forest models. Tree models take the individual tree as the basic unit of a forest simulator.
- Subjects
FORESTS &; forestry; ECOLOGICAL succession; MATHEMATICAL models; SIMULATION methods &; models; FOREST dynamics; COMPUTER simulation; FOREST ecology; TREES; ECOLOGY
- Publication
BioScience, 1980, Vol 30, Issue 5, p308
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1307854