Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-905-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-905-2020
Model description paper
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05 Mar 2020
Model description paper |  | 05 Mar 2020

HETEROFOR 1.0: a spatially explicit model for exploring the response of structurally complex forests to uncertain future conditions – Part 1: Carbon fluxes and tree dimensional growth

Mathieu Jonard, Frédéric André, François de Coligny, Louis de Wergifosse, Nicolas Beudez, Hendrik Davi, Gauthier Ligot, Quentin Ponette, and Caroline Vincke

Model code and software

HETEROFOR-1.0_LGPL_REVISED M. Jonard, F. André, and L. Wergifosse https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3591348

Installer of HETEROFOR 1.0 M. Jonard, F. André, and L. Wergifosse http://amap-dev.cirad.fr/projects/capsis/files

Short summary
To explore the forest response to new forestry practices under a changing environment, one needs models combining a process-based approach with a detailed spatial representation, which is very rare. We decided to develop our own model according to a spatially explicit approach describing individual tree growth based on resource sharing (light, water and nutrients). A first evaluation showed that HETEROFOR predicts well individual radial growth and is able to reproduce size–growth relationships.