The past and future of modeling forest dynamics: from growth and yield curves to forest landscape models

SR Shifley, HS He, H Lischke, WJ Wang, W Jin… - Landscape …, 2017 - Springer
Context Quantitative models of forest dynamics have followed a progression toward
methods with increased detail, complexity, and spatial extent. Objectives We highlight …

Applications of the United States Forest Inventory and Analysis dataset: a review and future directions

WT Tinkham, PR Mahoney, AT Hudak… - Canadian Journal of …, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
The United States Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program has been monitoring national
forest resources in the United States for over 80 years; presented here is a synthesis of …

Changes in forest biomass and tree species distribution under climate change in the northeastern United States

WJ Wang, HS He, FR Thompson, JS Fraser… - Landscape Ecology, 2017 - Springer
Context Forests in the northeastern United States are currently in early-and mid-
successional stages recovering from historical land use. Climate change will affect forest …

Direct and indirect effects of climate change on projected future fire regimes in the western United States

Z Liu, MC Wimberly - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
We asked two research questions:(1) What are the relative effects of climate change and
climate-driven vegetation shifts on different components of future fire regimes?(2) How does …

Forest decision support systems for the analysis of ecosystem services provisioning at the landscape scale under global climate and market change scenarios

EM Nordström, M Nieuwenhuis, EZ Başkent… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Sustainable forest management is driving the development of forest decision support
systems (DSSs) to include models and methods concerned with climate change, biodiversity …

Toward more robust projections of forest landscape dynamics under novel environmental conditions: embedding PnET within LANDIS-II

A De Bruijn, EJ Gustafson, BR Sturtevant, JR Foster… - Ecological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Ecological models built on phenomenological relationships and behavior of the past may
not be robust under novel conditions of the future because global changes are producing …

Effects of outliers on remote sensing‐assisted forest biomass estimation: A case study from the United States national forest inventory

JA Knott, GC Liknes, CL Giebink, S Oh… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale ecological sampling networks, such as national forest inventories (NFIs), collect
in situ data to support biodiversity monitoring, forest management and planning, and …

LANDIS PRO: a landscape model that predicts forest composition and structure changes at regional scales

WJ Wang, HS He, JS Fraser, FR Thompson III… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
LANDIS PRO predicts forest composition and structure changes incorporating species‐,
stand‐, and landscape‐scales processes at regional scales. Species‐scale processes …

Modeling forest landscape futures: Full scale simulation of realistic socioeconomic scenarios in Estonia

A Kaasik, R Kont, A Lõhmus - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
For political and administrative governance of land-use decisions, high-resolution and
reliable spatial models are required over large areas and for various time horizons. We …