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The UVA Forest Model Enhanced (UVAFME) is an update and extension of the individual-based gap model FAREAST (Yan & Shugart 2005). As a traditional gap model, UVAFME simulates the establishment, growth, and mortality of individual trees on independent patches (i.e. plots) of a forested landscape. The model is only spatially distributed in the vertical dimension, and plots are assumed to have no direct spatial interactions with one another. Through a Monte Carlo-style aggregation, the average of several hundred of these independent patches represents the average expected conditions of a forested landscape through time. As such, output from UVAFME is comparable to a statistically robust sampling of replicate forest inventory plots.

UVAFME is written using modern Fortran (90+).

Scripting involved in testing, automation, and post-processing may include Bash, Python, R, and perhaps others.

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References:

Yan & Shugart 2005. Journal of Biogeography, 32(9):1641-1658.

Foster et al. 2019. Ecological Modelling, 409.

Wang et al. 2018. Ecological Applications 28(5):1223-1231

Foster et al. 2018. Ecosphere, 9(10).

Shuman et al. 2017. Environmental Research Letters, 12.

Foster et al. 2017. Ecological Modelling, 351:109-128.

Shuman et al. 2015. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 45:175-184.