ReviewEcology and evolution2021
Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Understanding Beech Predominance Through Sapling and Adult Demography Along Environmental Gradients.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Predicting the potential geographic distribution of Fagus orientalis Lipsky under climate change using an ensemble model approach in Türkiye.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2025Article
- Optimizing sustainable and multifunctional management of Alpine Forests under climate change.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Factors influencing net ecosystem carbon change in cold-temperate coniferous forests of the Da Xing'an Mountains: analysis across developmental stages based on stand, structural, and environmental factors.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- A new approach to derive productivity of tropical forests using radar remote sensing measurements.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Evolutionary adaptation of trees and modelled future larch forest extent in Siberia.Ecological modelling · 2023Article
- Modeling forest landscape futures: Full scale simulation of realistic socioeconomic scenarios in Estonia.PloS one · 2023Article
- The evolution, complexity and diversity of models of long-term forest dynamics.The Journal of ecology · 2022Article
- Strategic roadmap to assess forest vulnerability under air pollution and climate change.Global change biology · 2022Review
- Functionally distinct tree species support long-term productivity in extreme environments.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models.Ecology and evolution · 2021Review
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Abstract
Understanding the processes that shape forest functioning, structure, and diversity remains challenging, although data on forest systems are being collected at a rapid pace and across scales. Forest models have a long history in bridging data with ecological knowledge and can simulate forest dynamics over spatio-temporal scales unreachable by most empirical investigations.We describe the development that different forest modelling communities have followed to underpin the leverage that simulation models offer for advancing our understanding of forest ecosystems.Using three widely applied but contrasting approaches - species distribution models, individual-based forest models, and dynamic global vegetation models - as examples, we show how scientific and technical advances have led models to transgress their initial objectives and limitations. We provide an overview of recent model applications on current important ecological topics and pinpoint ten key questions that could, and should, be tackled with forest models in the next decade.Synthesis. This overview shows that forest models, due to their complementarity and mutual enrichment, represent an invaluable toolkit to address a wide range of fundamental and applied ecological questions, hence fostering a deeper understanding of forest dynamics in the context of global change.
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