Confronting an individual-based simulation model with empirical community patterns of grasslands.

ABSTRACT: Grasslands contribute to global biogeochemical cycles and can host a high number of plant species. Both-species dynamics and biogeochemical fluxes-are influenced by abiotic and biotic environmental factors, management and natural disturbances. In order to understand and project grassland dynamics under global change, vegetation models which explicitly capture all relevant processes and drivers are required. However, the parameterization of such models is often challenging. Here, we report on testing an individual- and process-based model for simulating the dynamics and structure of a grassland experiment in temperate Europe. We parameterized the model for three species and confront simulated grassland dynamics with empirical observations of their monocultures and one two-species mixture. T

SUBMITTER: Taubert F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7386574 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature