TP125
Disturbance legacies and resilience simulation using an individual-based forest landscape model on the Andrews Experimental Forest

CREATOR(S): Rupert Seidl

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S): Rupert Seidl

ORIGINATOR(S): Rupert Seidl

OTHER RESEARCHER(S): Thomas A. Spies

DATA SET CONTACT PERSON: Rupert Seidl

METHOD CONTACT: Werner Rammer

DATA SET CREDIT:

This work was partly funded through grant P25503-B16 of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and a European Community’s 7th Framework Program Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (grant PCIG12-GA-2012 334104).

METADATA CREATION DATE:

11 Apr 2014

MOST RECENT METADATA REVIEW DATE:

23 May 2014

KEYWORDS:

Disturbance, stand structure, populations, ecology, forest dynamics, fires, community composition, plant species composition, land cover, processes, succession, carbon cycling, resistance and resilience, disturbance, modeling, landscape change, ecosystems, forests, trees, vegetation, ecosystem processes, landscape dynamics

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this study was to determine the role and contribution of biological legacies to the resilience of the HJ Andrews landscape after large, high severity fire. Resilience is quantified for three indicators, i.e., total ecosystem carbon storage, canopy complexity (rumple index), and presence of late-seral species on the landscape.

METHODS:

Models/Algorithms - TP125:

Description: The individual-based forest landscape and disturbance model iLand was used to generate the data. Model code and executable as well as an extensive model documentation are available at http://iLand.boku.ac.at

Citation: Seidl et al. 2012a: An individual-based process model to simulate landscape-scale forest ecosystem dynamics. Ecol. Model 231: 87-100; Seidl et al. 2012b: Multi-scale Drivers of Spatial Variation in Old-Growth Forest Carbon Density Disentangled with Lidar and an Individual-Based Landscape Model. Ecosystems 15: 1321-1335

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION:

This study has been published as: Seidl, R., Rammer, W., Spies, T.A. 2014. Disturbance legacies increase the resilience of forest ecosystem structure, composition, and functioning. Ecological Applications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-0255.1

SITE DESCRIPTION:

Entire 6364ha H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest watershed at a grain of regular 100m grid cells.

TAXONOMIC SYSTEM:

None

GEOGRAPHIC EXTENT:

H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Western Cascades, Oregon

MEASUREMENT FREQUENCY:

annually

PROGRESS DESCRIPTION:

Complete

UPDATE FREQUENCY DESCRIPTION:

notPlanned

CURRENTNESS REFERENCE:

Publication date

RELATED MATERIAL:

The iLand model is described in detail at http://iLand.boku.ac.at. There also the code and executable used for this study can be downloaded.