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Standardizing and Categorizing Tree Growth Models

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This chapter documents the practical applicability of growth simulators, gives an overview of current model approaches, defines standards for the description and evaluation of growth models and growth simulators and indicates research needs. The recommendations aim to give users of growth simulators confidence in the transition to modern prediction systems and to increase the level of acceptance of new information technologies. The recommendations provide developers with guidelines for model description, model evaluation and software development and thus contribute towards efficient co-operation.

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  1. Chair of Forest Yield Science, Technical University of Munich, Am Hochanger 13, 85354, Freising, Germany

    Peter Biber & Rainer Sodtke

  2. Institute of Forest Management and Geodesy, Technical University Zvolen, Slovakia

    Jan Dursky

  3. Institute for Forest Planning and Yield Science, University Göttingen, Germany

    Klaus von Gadow

  4. Institute for Forest Growth Research, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

    Hubert Hasenauer & Hubert Sterba

  5. Forest Research Station Baden Württemberg, Freiburg, Germany

    Gerald Kändler, Georg Kenk & Edgar Kublin

  6. Forest Research Station Niedersachsen, Göttingen, Germany

    Jürgen Nagel

  7. Faculty of Forestry, University of Joensuu, Finland

    Timo Pukkala

  8. Danish Forest and Landscape Research Institute, Kopenhagen, Denmark

    Jens Peter Skovsgaard

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    Hubert Hasenauer

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Pretzsch, H. et al. (2006). Standardizing and Categorizing Tree Growth Models. In: Hasenauer, H. (eds) Sustainable Forest Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31304-4_3

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