Simulating forest resilience: A review.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Simulation models are important tools for quantifying the resilience (i.e., persistence under changed environmental conditions) of forest ecosystems to global change. We synthesized the modelling literature on forest resilience, summarizing common models and applications in resilience research, and scrutinizing the implementation of important resilience mechanisms in these models. Models applied to assess resilience are highly diverse, and our goal was to assess how well they account for important resilience mechanisms identified in experimental and empirical research.

Location

Global.

Time period

1994 to 2019.

Major taxa studied

Trees.

Methods

We reviewed the forest resilience literature using online databases, selecting 119 simulation modelling stu

SUBMITTER: Albrich K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7756463 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature