Models
Model Characteristics
| Id | 3 |
| Last update | 2001-10-08 |
| Name | ASPECTS |
| Year | 2001 |
| Author | Daniel Rasse & Louis Francois |
| Contact | |
| Organisation | Université de Liège |
| Country | Belgium |
| Category | Growth |
| Model type | Empirical growth & Yield models |
| Sub-type | Stand model |
| Level | Stand/plot |
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| Stochasticity | |
| Range of applicabiilty (region, ...) | |
| Site | |
| Stand composition | |
| Forest structure | |
| Species | Fagus sylvatica; Fraxinus excelsior; Pinus sylvestris; Pseudostauga menziesii |
| Sylvicultural system | |
| Tree range | |
| Stand range | |
| State variables - Growth | |
| State variables - Initialization | |
| State variables - Prediction | |
| State variables - Stochastic for | |
| Distribution diameter variables - growth | |
| Distribution diameter variables - initialization | |
| Distribution diameter variables - prediction | |
| Distribution diameter variables - stochasticity for | |
| Tree variables - growth | |
| Tree variables - Initialisation | |
| Tree variables - prediction | |
| Tree variables - stochasticity for | |
| Growth processes | |
| Regeneration processes at stand level | |
| Regeneration processes at sapling level | |
| Hazards | |
| Submodule : Sylvicultural practicies | Rising atmospheric CO2; Silviculture: initial density and thinnings; Site description |
| Submodel : Climate parameters | Allocation models; Biomass models; Mortality model; Nitrogen allocation; Nutrient content models; Stand/tree growth |
| Input state variables | Age; Climate; Initial biomass; Management history; Number of trees/ha; Soil profile description; Species |
| Human inputs | |
| Climate inputs | |
| Output state variable | Net ecosystem productivity (NEP); Net primary productivity (NPP); Organ biomass (stems, branches, roots) |
| Quantity products | |
| Quality pulp | |
| Quality construction | |
| Quality cork | |
| Simulator name | ASPECTS |
| Stand Simulator version | |
| Stand Simulator hardware | |
| Stand Simulator memory | |
| Stand Simulator OS | |
| Stand Simulator language | |
| Stand Simulator characteristics | |
| Stand Simulator indicators | |
| Stand Simulator visualization | |
| Landscape Simulator name | |
| Landscape Simulator version | |
| Landscape Simulator hardware | |
| Landscape Simulator memory | |
| Landscape Simulator OS | |
| Landscape Simulator language | |
| Landscape Simulator characteristics | |
| Landscape Simulator indicators | |
| Landscape Simulator visualization | |
| Reference | |
| Bibliography | Rasse, D.P., L. François, M. Aubinet, A.S. Kowalski, I. Vande Walle, E. Laitat and J.-C. Gérard. 2001.Modelling short-term CO2 fluxes and long-term tree growth in temperate forests with ASPECTS. Ecological Modelling. 141:35-52. Rasse, D.P, B. Longdoz, and R. Ceulemans. 2001. TRAP: a modelling approach to below-ground carbon allocation in temperate forests. Plant and Soil. 229:281-293. |
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