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Tables of Contents for Modern Approaches in Forest Ecosystem Modelling
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
6
Simulation Models of Forest Ecosystems
7
34
Overview
7
1
Models of Soil Organic Matter Dynamics
7
9
Introduction
7
2
Early SOM models
9
1
Recent SOM models
9
5
Discussion and conclusions
14
2
Simulation Models of Forest Dynamics
16
25
Introduction
16
1
Classification of models
17
2
Single tree models
19
4
Individual-based models
23
1
Growth-yield individual-based models
23
1
Individual-based gap models
24
1
Stand models
25
1
Growth-yield stand models
25
1
Process models
26
1
Whole ecosystem combination (combined or hybrid) models
27
3
The discrete description of the ontogeny of plants and trees
30
5
Regional models of forest dynamics
35
3
Model systems
38
3
Spatial Forest Models
41
28
Introduction
41
3
The Concept of the Free-Growing Tree
44
2
Model of Tree Stand on the Free-Growth Equation and Spatial Tesselations
46
3
Statistical Analysis of Spatial Structures and its Applications to Populations of Trees and Other Plants
49
8
Aims of analysing the spatial pattern of tree and plant communities
49
1
Traditional methods of analysing of patterns of plants displacement
50
1
Statistical methods based on Markov random fields (i.e., system with local interactions)
51
1
A binary variable on lattice
51
1
Markov point processes
52
2
Marked point process with interaction
54
2
Analysis of spatial pattern using second order statistics
56
1
Modelling of Spatial Structure
57
3
Spatial Analytical Models of Competition
60
9
Spatial models of tree biomass characteristics dynamics
62
1
Models of two competing plant species
63
3
The ecological field theory
66
3
Analytical Models of Tree Populations and Forest Communities
69
26
The Hierarchical System of Mathematical Models of Forest Communities
69
3
Analytical Models and Basic Principles of Their Construction
72
3
Example: Dynamic Model of Tree Stand Growth (DMTG)
75
1
The Layer-Mosaic Concept
75
3
The Concept of a Single Plant Ecosystem
78
1
Gap-Models of Forest Communities
78
2
The Problem of Expansion of Spatial and Temporal Scales and the Creation of a Mathematical Theory of Gap-modelling
80
1
Individual-Based or Structural Models of Populations
81
3
Structural Models of Meta-populations
84
2
Enlarging the Spatial and Time Scales and Meta-population Forest Models
86
2
Dynamics of Forest Areas
88
2
Statement of a problem
88
1
Structural model of succession
89
1
Succession and Ergodicity
90
2
Some Perspectives
92
3
Conclusions
95
4
References
99