Table 12: Landscape context – disturbances
model | description | relative complexity scoring |
SORTIE | none (potentially included in later versions) | 1 |
KiWi | none | 1 |
ForClim | browsing as reduction of recruitment potential; stand level | 2 |
3-PG | none | 1 |
BiomeBGC | general, represented as loss from biomass pools | 2 |
LANDIS | wind, fire, insects; spatially explicitly; feedbacks on species - age cohorts | 5 |
ED | fire; spatially explicit | 4 |
FireBGC | fire; spatially explicit | 4 |
LANDIS II | wind, fire, insects; spatially explicitly; feedbacks on species - age - biomass cohorts | 5 |
PICUS | bark beetles (stand level), feedback on stand structure | 2 |
Table 13: Landscape context – management
model | description | relative complexity scoring |
SORTIE | no management | 1 |
KiWi | no management | 1 |
ForClim | no management | 1 |
3-PG | no landscape scheduling | 1 |
BiomeBGC | no landscape scheduling | 1 |
LANDIS | spatial and temporal flexibility in landscape scale management | 5 |
ED | no management | 1 |
FireBGC | no landscape scheduling | 1 |
LANDIS II | spatial and temporal flexibility in landscape scale management | 5 |
PICUS | no landscape scheduling | 1 |
Table 14: Landscape context – interactions
model | description | relative complexity scoring |
SORTIE | dispersal (if applied above stand level) | 2.5 |
KiWi | none | 1 |
ForClim | no spatial interactions between patches | 1 |
3-PG | no landscape level interactions | 1 |
BiomeBGC | no landscape level interactions | 1 |
LANDIS | spatially explicit seed dispersal and disturbance processes; interactions between disturbances | 5 |
ED | spatial fire spread between gaps (spatial seed dispersal possible) | 3.5 |
FireBGC | spatially explicit seed dispersal, fire spread | 3.5 |
LANDIS II | spatially explicit seed dispersal and disturbance processes; interactions between disturbances | 5 |
PICUS | no landscape level interactions | 1 |