Publications by authors named "Adam R Hanbury-Brown"
Article Synopsis
- Earth system models help predict how forests will react to changes in climate and the environment, which is important for understanding future weather and ecosystems.
- These models are getting better at showing how trees grow, die, and start new life, but they still need to do more work on how forests can regrow after being damaged.
- To improve these models, scientists need more data and better methods for studying how trees spread their seeds and survive in different conditions like wind and fire.
Vegetation demographic models (VDMs) endeavor to predict how global forests will respond to climate change. This requires simulating which trees, if any, are able to recruit under changing environmental conditions. We present a new recruitment scheme for VDMs in which functional-type-specific recruitment rates are sensitive to light, soil moisture and the productivity of reproductive trees.
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