ODD Description of the BEFORE Beech Forest Model
Author(s): Steven F Railsback1, Volker Grimm
Lang Railsback & Associates
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Description
This is a supplemental resource from Agent-based and Individual-based Modeling: a practical introduction by Railsback and Grimm (2012). This is an ODD description of the BEFORE beech forest model, from section 18 of the book.
This document describes the BEFORE beech forest model described in Section 18.3. It is taken from an appendix to:
Jakoby, O., Rademacher, C., & Grimm, V. 2010. Modelling dead wood islands in European beech forests: how much and how reliably would they provide dead wood? European Journal of Forest Research, 129: 659-668
and:
Rademacher, C., Neuert, C., Grundmann, V., Wissel, C., & Grimm, V. 2004. Reconstructing spatiotemporal dynamics of Central European natural beech forests: therule-based forest model BEFORE. Forest Ecology and Management 194:349-368.
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:
- Railsback, S. F., Grimm, V. (2018). ODD Description of the BEFORE Beech Forest Model. Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/Q4CX36