A workshop on Tree Regeneration Modeling is being organized under the PROCLIAS Task Group 2.3 on novel approaches to model uncertainty assessments.

The workshop on Tree Regeneration Modelling will focus on the simulation and assessment of the regeneration niche per se, i.e., as it arises from empirical data analysis vs. its representation in a wide range of models of forest dynamics. The key idea is that in most models of forest dynamics, regeneration processes are not formulated based on large empirical data sets but instead the regeneration niche arises as an “emergent property” of the formulations that are used to constrain regeneration (e.g., warmth during the summer; drought; light availability, etc.).

This scientific exercise will statistically determine the regeneration niche from the simulation results of models of forest dynamics, and to contrast this with an empirically derived depiction of the regeneration niche. This approach will be one of the few attempts to provide an empirically-based model of tree regeneration for a wide range of environmental conditions and multiple species. [read more]