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Rupert Seidl (project leader)

Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society,Image Image Oregon State University, Corvallis, Or
Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, Austria

  • expertise: forest ecosystem dynamics, climate change effects on forest ecosystems, sustainable forest management, forest ecosystem modelling, disturbance ecology and modelling
  • role in iLand: model development, data analysis and preparation for case studies, model evaluation, model documentation, project management
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Werner Rammer (project partner)

Institute of Silviculture,Image Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, Austria

  • expertise: scientific/environmental computing, object oriented programming, algorithm optimization, spatial data processing and analysis, forest ecology, decision support systems
  • role in iLand: model development, model implementation, model documentation
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Thomas A. Spies (project partner)

Pacific Northwest Research Station,Image USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, Or
Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Or

  • expertise: forest ecology, forest succession, stand and landscape structure and dynamics, old growth forest ecology and conservation; overstory-understory relationships; coupled natural and human systems
  • role in iLand: contributing to model design and development, providing expertise for ecosystem and disturbance dynamics in the Pacific Northwest, helping to set up a case study for model testing and evaluation in the Pacific Northwest
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Robert M. Scheller (project partner)

Environmental Sciences and Management,Image
Portland State University, Portland Or

  • expertise: landscape ecology, forest ecosystem ecology, fire ecology, global climate change, forest management, landscape and disturbance modeling, spatial and multivariate statistics, GIS, scientific computing/programming, remote sensing, ecosystem modelling
  • role in iLand: contributing to model design and development, providing expertise in forest landscape modelling with the LANDIS approach, helping to set up a case study for model testing and evaluation in the Pacific Northwest
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Manfred J. Lexer (project partner)

Institute of Silviculture,Image Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, Austria

  • expertise: forest ecosystem dynamics, climate change effects on forest ecosystems, decision support systems, sustainable forest management, forest ecosystem modelling, multi-criteria analysis
  • role in iLand: contributing to model design and development, helping to set up a case study for model testing and evaluation in the Eastern Alps, Austria, providing expertise with regard to aspects of using the model framework in sustainable forest management decision support
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