1. General Model Information

Name: FORDYN

Acronym: FORDYN

Main medium: terrestrial
Main subject: forestry
Organization level: ecosystem
Type of model: individual-based, ordinary differential equations
Main application:
Keywords: forest ecosystems, hierarchical models, pine, scale, succession, competition

Contact:

Jingsheng Luan

address:
Dept. of Botany, Duke University,
P.O. Box 90340, Durham, NC
27708-0340, USA

phone:
fax: 919-660-7425
email: luan@larrea.botony.duke.edu

Author(s):

Abstract:

FORDYN is a hierarchical forest ecosystem model organized into four levels. The first level deals with growth and mortality of individual trees, the second with above- and below-ground allocation of biomass, the third with physiological data and the fourth with C3 photosynthesis, allowing for the simulation of temperature and CO2 impacts on the ecosystem.

II. Technical Information

II.1 Executables:

Operating System(s):

II.2 Source-code:

Programming Language(s):

II.3 Manuals:

II.4 Data:

III. Mathematical Information

III.1 Mathematics

III.2 Quantities

III.2.1 Input

III.2.2 Output

IV. References

Luan, J., Muetzelfeldt, R.I. and Grace, J. 1995. Hierarchical approach to forest ecosystem simulation. Ecological Modelling 86: 37-50.

V. Further information in the World-Wide-Web

VI. Additional remarks

V. Information and remarks about the application of this model

Last review of this document by: July 9, 1996
Status of the document:
last modified by Tobias Gabele Wed Aug 21 21:44:43 CEST 2002