Publisher's Synopsis
Forest growth and development is the result of a complex interaction between tree physiology, stand structure, soil conditions and the abiotic atmospheric environment. In order to study and quantify these interactions and the effects that changes in environmental conditions may have on the structure and functioning of forest ecosystems, process-based simulation models have been developed in recent years.;Aimed at advanced students of forestry, forest ecologists and forest managers, this book contains an account of recent developments in modelling the growth of forests. There is also an overview of the general literature concerned with Scots Pine which supports those chapters which use Scots Pine as this is the species most commonly used in the models and case studies discussed in this book.
