Predicting and understanding forest dynamics using a simple tractable model.

ABSTRACT: The perfect-plasticity approximation (PPA) is an analytically tractable model of forest dynamics, defined in terms of parameters for individual trees, including allometry, growth, and mortality. We estimated these parameters for the eight most common species on each of four soil types in the US Lake states (Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota) by using short-term (

SUBMITTER: Purves DW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2579370 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature