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 |