Crown Plasticity and Competition for Canopy Space: A New Spatially Implicit Model Parameterized for 250 North American Tree Species
Drew W. Purves, Jeremy W. Lichstein, Stephen W. Pacala · 2007
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Description
Drew Purves, Jeremy Lichstein and Stephen Pacala built a new forest model covering 250 North American tree species, published in PLOS ONE in 2007. A forest canopy is the sum of crown sizes, shapes and places within a stand. Canopy form shapes light, growth and nearly every part of forest life, yet there was no agreed way to work it out from basic tree data.
Their model is spatially implicit, meaning it captures crowns without mapping every tree. It also allows crowns to shift shape as trees compete for space and light. A tool like this helps link simple field measures to the structure of whole forests.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Drew W. Purves, Jeremy W. Lichstein, Stephen W. Pacala |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000870