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Model Name |
Brief description |
Role in Labrador District 19A meta-model |
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|
SELES |
A general tool for building grid-based models of landscape dynamics (Fall
and Fall 2001). |
Implement the 20-year plan, perform simulation-based timber supply
analysis (D19aLM), and facilitate inter-model communication. |
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LINKAGES |
A forest ecosystem “gap” model that simulates tree
establishment and succession as a function of soil water, nutrient dynamics, and
climate (Post and Pastor 1996). |
Estimate the probability of tree species establishment in
LANDIS-II. |
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Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) |
An empirical model used to predict fire spread rates and behavior based on
fuel types, weather, topography, and geographic location (Forestry Canada Fire
Danger Group 1992). |
Parameterize relative fire spread rates within different forest cover types
for use in landscape disturbance models (e.g., LANDIS-II). |
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LANDIS-II |
A raster-based, landscape-scale disturbance and succession model that
trades mechanistic detail for the ability to simulate over large landscapes and
long time scales (Mladenoff 2004). |
Explore interactions between management and natural disturbance in terms of
impacts on likely tree species and age patterns and composition. |
|
SORTIE |
A spatially explicit, individual-tree, neighborhood-scale model that
simulates stand development as an outcome of interactions among trees (Pacala et
al. 1996). |
Capture fine-scale succession processes to estimate changes in tree species
composition and explore dynamics of partial harvesting regimes. |
|
Patchworks |
A tool for producing spatial harvest schedules
(http://www.spatial.ca/products/index.html) |
Produce harvest schedules, and compare with scenario-based approaches to
timber supply analysis. |
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Real Options |
A numerical analysis approach used in economics to inform decisions with
irreversible consequences that affect a real asset (Dixit and Pindyck
1994). |
Explore economic aspects of planning, such as the decision to stop timber
harvesting when it may trigger the extirpation of resident caribou (Morgan et
al, unpublished). |
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BAP toolbox |
A set of indicator models for assessing alternative management strategies
in terms of biodiversity values (Doyon and Duinker 2003) |
Assess the consequences of different management scenarios on biodiversity
using both coarse- and fine-filter approaches. |