Active: Forecasting Landscape Change: LANDIS-II Development

We are continually improving our understanding of dynamic ecosystems and landscapes. We often translate this knowledge into mathematical or logical representations that are folded into the LANDIS-II forest landscape simulation model. LANDIS-II was derived from the LANDIS family of forest landscape models, developed by Dr. David Mladenoff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. LANDIS-II is a state-of-the-art iteration of the LANDIS model and is fully extensible, open-source, and built to rigorous software engineering standards (www.landi-ii.org). LANDIS-II has been used by many groups and throughout the world. We contribute by providing training and development support. We also develop many new extensions that are shared with scientists world-wide.