Competition for light in forest population dynamics: from computer simulator to mathematical model
Populations and Evolution
2016-09-02 v1 Analysis of PDEs
Abstract
In this article we build a mathematical model for forest growth and we compare this model with a computer forest simulator named SORTIE. The main ingredient taken into account in both models is the competition for light between trees. The parameters of the mathematical model are estimated by using SORTIE model, when the parameter values of SORTIE model correspond to the ones previously evaluated for the Great Mountain Forest in USA. We construct a size structured population dynamics model with one and two species and with spatial structure.
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@article{arxiv.1609.00185,
title = {Competition for light in forest population dynamics: from computer simulator to mathematical model},
author = {Pierre Magal and Zhengyang Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.00185},
year = {2016}
}