Oliver L. Phillips

TL;DR: A demographics scheme (tree recruitment, growth, and mortality) is added to a recently developed non-demographic model - the Trait-based Forest Simulator (TFS) to explore the roles of climate and plant traits in controlling forest productivity and structure.

TL;DR: The results reveal that dominant species play a key role in structuring western Amazonian tree communities, which in turn has important implications, both practically for designing effective protected areas, and more generally for understanding the determinants of beta diversity patterns.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess systematic error in out-of-sample predictions of AGB introduced during measurement, compilation and modeling of in-sample calibration data, and find that conservative inconsistencies can introduce significant bias into tree and stand-scale AGB predictions.

TL;DR: In this article, a generalized forest simulator based on the ForClim model was developed to simulate the dynamics of typical mountainous Mediterranean ecosystems, following the forest gap dynamics framework, which was adapted to the bioclimatic conditions and species traits of the North-eastern part of the Mediterranean Basin, based on forest inventories and climate data from Greece.