Representation of Vegetation Dynamics in the Modelling of Terrestrial Ecosystems: Comparing Two Contrasting Approaches within European Climate Space

• Published in: Global ecology and biogeography Vol. 10; no. 6; pp. 621 - 637
• Main Authors: Smith, Benjamin, Prentice, I. Colin, Sykes, Martin T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Science 01.11.2001
• Subjects: Biogeography; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Ecological modeling; Ecology; Ecosystem models; Ecosystems; Forest ecology; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Geovetenskap och relaterad miljövetenskap; Modeling; Natural Sciences; Naturgeografi; Naturvetenskap; Physical Geography; Plants; Simulations; Vegetation; Europe

1 Advances in dynamic ecosystem modelling have made a number of different approaches to vegetation dynamics possible. Here we compare two models representing contrasting degrees of abstraction of the processes governing dynamics in real vegetation. 2 Model (a) (GUESS) simulates explicitly growth and...