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=== Brief overview ===
 
=== Brief overview ===
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SimForTree is a [[DSS|decision support tool]] for sustainable forest management based on ecophysiological analysis and simulation of the variability in tree development.
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SimForTree is a [[DSS|decision support tool]] still in development for sustainable forest management based on ecophysiological analysis and simulation of the variability in tree development.
  
 
[[Category:Decision support system]]
 
[[Category:Decision support system]]
 
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[[Category:Belgian DSS]]
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[[Image:SimForTree.gif|thumb|400px|SimForTree project logo]]
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[[Image:SimForTree.png|thumb|400px|SimForTree project logo]]
  
 
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=== Scope of the system ===
 
=== Scope of the system ===
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* tool encourages decision maker to discover new problems or opportunities by exposing to new information or results
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SimForTree DSS follows to solve this three questions:
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* tool helps decision makers in recognizing upcoming problems for which solutions have been developed previously
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# Predict changes in wood production quality and quantity as a result of forest management practice, for three Flemish wood-processing enterprises.
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* tool allows decision maker to actively create new knowledge when faced with a new problem and to develop novel solutions
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# Predict the ecosystem fluxes of carbon and water for specific forest management and climatic change scenarios, in a representative Flemish forest.
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* tool allows decision maker to capture knowledge, making it available to decision makers who are seeking solutions from previously solved problems
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# Long-term prediction of ecosystem fluxes in a mixed uneven-aged and structurally complex forest, at the stand and landscape scales.
  
 
=== System origin ===
 
=== System origin ===
 
* SimForTree is a research project financed by the Flemish IWT (Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders) with participants from the universities of Antwerpen (Universiteit Antwerpen), Gent (Universiteit Gent) and Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).
 
* SimForTree is a research project financed by the Flemish IWT (Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders) with participants from the universities of Antwerpen (Universiteit Antwerpen), Gent (Universiteit Gent) and Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).
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* how was it developed
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* The project development is being accompanied by a stewardship council with all the key stakeholders.
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* is it a commercial product
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* It is still in development
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* does it have real-life application cases
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=== Support for specific issues  ===
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Is the system designed to take into account specific uses? E.g. guidance on ways to characterize biodiversity, economic-biodiversity tradeoff analysis methods, risk assessment methods, landscape analysis methods, timber harvest effects, climate change effects, biological effects (pests, pathogens, invasives), fire,...
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== Models ==
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=== Forest models ===
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The ANAFORE model will be the core for SimForTree<ref>DECKMYN, G., H. VERBEECK, M. OP DE BEECK, D. VANSTEENKISTE, K. STEPPE, et R. CEULEMANS (2008): ANAFORE: a stand-scale process-based forest model that includes wood tissue development and labile carbon storage in trees. ''Ecological Modelling'', 215, 345-368</ref>. Currently, ANAFORE is working and freely available<ref>[http://www.simfortree.be/modelEng.htm ANAFORE model]</ref>.
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Three versions of the SimForTree model will be available, answering different requirements:
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*Forest-Wood Chain SimForTree
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*Environmental SimForTree
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*Ecosystem SimForTree
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==References==
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===Cited references===
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<references/>
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===External resources===
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* [http://www.simfortree.be/ SimForTree project website]

Revision as of 19:57, 22 September 2009

General System description

System name:

Acronym: SimForTree

Brief overview

SimForTree is a decision support tool still in development for sustainable forest management based on ecophysiological analysis and simulation of the variability in tree development.
SimForTree project logo

Scope of the system

SimForTree DSS follows to solve this three questions:

  1. Predict changes in wood production quality and quantity as a result of forest management practice, for three Flemish wood-processing enterprises.
  2. Predict the ecosystem fluxes of carbon and water for specific forest management and climatic change scenarios, in a representative Flemish forest.
  3. Long-term prediction of ecosystem fluxes in a mixed uneven-aged and structurally complex forest, at the stand and landscape scales.

System origin

  • SimForTree is a research project financed by the Flemish IWT (Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders) with participants from the universities of Antwerpen (Universiteit Antwerpen), Gent (Universiteit Gent) and Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).
  • The project development is being accompanied by a stewardship council with all the key stakeholders.
  • It is still in development


Models

Forest models

The ANAFORE model will be the core for SimForTree[1]. Currently, ANAFORE is working and freely available[2].

Three versions of the SimForTree model will be available, answering different requirements:

  • Forest-Wood Chain SimForTree
  • Environmental SimForTree
  • Ecosystem SimForTree


References

Cited references

  1. ↑ DECKMYN, G., H. VERBEECK, M. OP DE BEECK, D. VANSTEENKISTE, K. STEPPE, et R. CEULEMANS (2008): ANAFORE: a stand-scale process-based forest model that includes wood tissue development and labile carbon storage in trees. Ecological Modelling, 215, 345-368
  2. ↑ ANAFORE model

External resources

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