Spanish forest dynamics: Constraining models with data

November 16, 2011
Emily Lines | University of Cambridge

Forest ecosystems store more carbon than the atmosphere and contain 2/3 of the world’s biodiversity but their response to changing climate is uncertain. Landscape-level predictions of forest-climate dependency can be made by scaling from key tree-level processes. New large-scale national inventories combined with improvements in computational methods mean that models that incorporate the climate dependency of demographic processes can be parameterised at regional scales. I present a set of results from my PhD work examining how individual tree processes vary in Spain.

Speaker Details

I am currently a 4th year PhD student in David Coomes’ group in the University of Cambridge, funded by Microsoft Research. I studied Maths at undergraduate and my interests are in simulation modelling and mathematical and computational methods in ecology and environmental sciences.