Water balance in forest inventory plots

Data de publicació: Mar 17, 2016 12:43:4 PM

Using the MEDFATE model, a team led by Miquel De Cáceres designed, calibrated and validated a water balance model that produces annual estimates of drought intensity and duration for all plant cohorts in a forest stand. Taking Catalonia (NE Spain) as a case study, they coupled this model with plot records from the Second and Third Spanish National Forest Inventories in which species identity, diameter and height of plant cohorts were available.

De Cáceres, M., Martínez-Vilalta, J., Coll, L., Llorens, P., Casals, P., Poyatos, R., Pausas, J.G., Brotons, L., 2015. Coupling a water balance model with forest inventory data to predict drought stress: the role of forest structural changes vs. climate changes. Agric. For. Meteorol. 213, 77–90. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.06.012

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