The Rapid Initial Community Builder (RICB) V1.1 for LANDIS-II.

ABSTRACT: Forest succession, or ecosystem process models, can aid in many land management decisions as they inherently incorporate ecological processes to predict how disturbances impact the resilience of the forest and its potential future structure. The landscape class of ecosystem process models are often ideal for management goals as they simulate individual tree species interactions through time at the landscape scale and offer a robust assortment of disturbance extensions. However, broad implementation and adoption are often limited as users must rebuild the landscape models for every new site of interest. Creation of the initial forest communities that all model simulations depend on, can be particularly time consuming. To address this issue, we created the Rapid Initial Community Builder (RI

SUBMITTER: Flanagan SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12775994 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature