USFS Landscape Science Webinar
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Apr 23, 2013
from 01:00 PM EDT to 02:00 PM EDT |
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| Where | Webinar |
| Contact Name | Amy Daniels |
| Contact Phone | 703-605-5251 |
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Presenter: Dr. Eric Gustafson - Research Landscape Ecologist, U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station |
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Natural resource managers must consider effects of environmental change in developing management plans. This requires ecosystem models capable of making projections robust to future changes in the fundamental drivers of ecosystem dynamics. The LANDIS-II forest landscape model simulates reciprocal effects of disturbance and forest vegetation patterns at broad spatial and temporal scales. The grid cells of LANDIS contain information on the biomass in each age-cohort of each tree species. As a process-based model it encapsulates ecological processes in self-contained, independent modules operating on the species-cohort information of individual cells. The processes are simulated independently, so their interactions need not be known ahead of time; system behavior is an emergent property of the independent processes. LANDIS is thus especially powerful for studying novel conditions (e.g., climate change). The presentation will feature LANDIS-II applications to study how climate change and potential management strategies interact. For more information on LANDIS-II, click here. |
