Agent-based dynamic modelling of forest ecosystems at the Warra LTER Site
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The simulation model was built using an agentbased modelling approach. The approach builds a virtual landscape ecosystem and simulates how the various components of the forest ecosystem fit together and interact with each other. Fire is the main disturbance source in the succession of the eucalypt forest ecosystem in this area and plays a critical role in the process of patterning the forested landscape. The emergent patterns from the simulation are in accord with the succession theory for the type of the forested ecosystem being modelled. Fuel dynamics are the main contributing factors to the definition of the fire regime of the forest ecosystems, and study of fuels in relation to topographic features is needed to further improve the simulation result.
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