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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2655-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2655-2015
Research article
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07 May 2015
Research article |  | 07 May 2015

Scaling from individual trees to forests in an Earth system modeling framework using a mathematically tractable model of height-structured competition

E. S. Weng, S. Malyshev, J. W. Lichstein, C. E. Farrior, R. Dybzinski, T. Zhang, E. Shevliakova, and S. W. Pacala

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We present a model, LM3-PPA, which simulates vegetation dynamics and biogeochemical processes by explicitly scaling from individual plants to ecosystems using the perfect plasticity approximation. It includes height-structured competition for light- and root-allocation-dependent competition for belowground resources. Because of the tractability of the PPA, the coupled LM3-PPA model is able to retain computational tractability, as well as close linkages to mathematically tractable special cases.
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