LANDIS and forest landscape models |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Texas, Austin, Department of Integrative Biology, Austin, TX 78712, USA;2. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis, CA 95618, USA;3. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA;4. Mountain View Business Group, LP, Upland, CA 91784, USA;1. US Geological Survey Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, WI 54603, United States;2. The Pennsylvania State University,University Park, PA 16802, United States;3. USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Rhinelander, WI 54501, United States;4. USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Irvine, PA 16329, United States;5. Isle Royale National Park, Houghton, MI, 49931, United States;1. Dynamic Macroecology, Landscape Dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstr. 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland;2. University of Lausanne, Geopolis, Quartier Mouline, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;3. Montana State University, Department of Ecology, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA;1. Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU, SE-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden;2. Department of Ecology, SLU, Box 7044, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden;3. Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, SLU, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden;4. Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden;5. The Finnish Forest Research Institute, FI-01301 Vantaa, Finland;6. Natural Resources Institute Finland, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland;7. Department of Economics, FI- 90014 University of Oulu, Finland;8. Department of Biological and Environmental Science, POB 35, FI-40014, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland;9. Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SLU, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden;10. Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | This paper provides contextual documentation of the LANDIS model development to provide a framework for the other papers in this special issue. The LANDIS model of forest landscape disturbance and succession was developed since the early 1990s as a research and management tool that optimizes the possible landscape extent (100 s ha to 1000 s km2), while providing mechanistic detail adequate for a broad range of potential problems. LANDIS is a raster model, and operates on landscapes mapped as cells, containing tree species age classes. Spatial processes, such as seed dispersal, and disturbances such as fire, wind, and harvesting can occur. LANDIS development benefited from the modelling and research progress of the 1960s to the1980s, including the growth of landscape ecology during the 1980s. In the past decade the model has been used by colleagues across North America, as well as in Europe and China. This has been useful to those not able to undertake the cost and effort of developing their own model, and it has provided a growing diverse set of test landscapes for the model. These areas include temperate, southern, and boreal forests of eastern North America, to montane and boreal western forests, coastal California forest and shrub systems, boreal Finnish forests, and montane forests in Switzerland and northeastern China. The LANDIS model continues to be refined and developed. Papers in this special issue document recent work. Future goals include integration within a larger land use change model, and applications to landscape and regional global change projection based on newly incorporated biomass and carbon dynamics. |
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