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Reconstructing spatiotemporal dynamics of Central European natural beech forests: the rule-based forest model BEFORE
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The results obtained with BEech FOREst (BEFORE) show that natural beech forests achieve quasistationary dynamics, demonstrating considerable fluctuations in the forest structure.About:
This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 2004-06-14. It has received 87 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fagus sylvatica & Beech.read more
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Pattern-oriented modeling of agent-based complex systems: lessons from ecology
Volker Grimm,Eloy Revilla,Uta Berger,Florian Jeltsch,Wolf M. Mooij,Steven F. Railsback,Hans-Hermann Thulke,Jacob Weiner,Thorsten Wiegand,Donald L. DeAngelis +9 more
TL;DR: This paper argues that recent advances in ecological modeling have come together in a general strategy that provides a unifying framework for decoding the internal organization of agent-based complex systems and may lead toward unifying algorithmic theories of the relation between adaptive behavior and system complexity.
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Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review
Rupert Seidl,Rupert Seidl,Paulo Fernandes,Teresa Fonseca,François Gillet,François Gillet,Anna Maria Jönsson,Katarína Merganičová,Sigrid Netherer,Alexander Arpaci,Jean-Daniel Bontemps,Harald Bugmann,José Ramón González-Olabarria,Petra Lasch,Céline Meredieu,Francisco Moreira,Mart-Jan Schelhaas,Frits Mohren +17 more
TL;DR: A review of the wide variety of approaches to modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems, addressing the full spectrum of disturbance modelling from single events to integrated disturbance regimes, is presented in this paper.
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Merging validation and evaluation of ecological models to ‘evaludation’: A review of terminology and a practical approach
TL;DR: ‘evaludation’ is introduced, a fusion of ‘evaluation’ and ‘validation�’, to describe the entire process of assessing a model's quality and reliability, and can help to make quality assessments and reality checks of ecological models more comprehensive and transparent.
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Competition among plants: Concepts, individual-based modelling approaches, and a proposal for a future research strategy
TL;DR: A more integrated research strategy for the future is needed, where empirical and theoretical ecologists as well as computer scientists work together on formulating, implementing, parameterization, testing, comparing, and selecting the new approaches to represent plant competition.
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Factors Influencing Succession: Lessons from Large, Infrequent Natural Disturbances
TL;DR: Abundance and spatial arrangement of survivors and arrival patterns of propagules may be the pivotal factors determining how succession differs between intense disturbances of large and small extent.
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Natural Woodland: Ecology and Conservation in Northern Temperate Regions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a personal introduction to woodlands, nature and history, definitions, values and philosophy, and a survey of natural woodlands in Europe and North America.
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The single tree-based stand simulator SILVA: construction, application and evaluation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a single tree forest growth simulator called SILVA, which is developed from a set of more than 155,000 tree observations, including the species Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst), Silver fir (Abies alba Mill), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), Common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Sessile oak (Quercus petraea (Mattuschka) Liebl.).
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Forest Dynamics: An Ecological Model
TL;DR: In this paper, the tree in the forest model is used to model the dynamics of forests and the use of the model in natural resource management and in global environmental problems, and its implications for ecological theory are discussed.
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