Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/21:73609137

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.7391" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.7391</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7391" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.7391</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

ISSN

2045-7758

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

3746-3770

UT code for WoS article

000634871900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85103403717