Forest Growth Modelling
AFFORSIM is a simulator of forest growth and afforestation. It is a
Multi Agent simulator (sometimes called Individual Based and Spatially
excplicit Model : IBM). At the starting time of the
simulation,
some individuals of Pines (or various ages and height) are
shared
over the stand.
Next, individual growths are driven by differential equations which
parameters are obtained from geometrical computations (calculus of an
individual competition indice). Seed production, seed dispersal and
death (due to both competition and age) are also modelled.
AFFORSIM was developped in
colaboration with Dr. D. Hill (ISIMA), Dr. B. Prévosto
(CEMAGREF) and Dr. A. Robert (Université de Nice-Sophia
Antipolis).
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