References
Acknowledgments
Gecko Woods was built for Dave Skelly, with funding from Howard Hughes Medical Informatics for the
CourseWare project.
Jim Hill, who as a grad student collected many
field measurements for Sortie, and has used Sortie for modeling projects, kindly helped with tree habits
and Sortie's strengths and weaknesses. Any misinterpretations are of course
my own. Gecko Woods is a project of the
Center for Computational Ecology,
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.
Sortie
There are many Sortie papers. The ones Gecko Woods was based on, in order of
how heavily they were relied upon, were:
- S.W. Pacala, C.D. Canham, J. Saponara, J.A. Silander Jr., R.K. Kobe, E. Ribbens (1996) Forest models
defined by field measurements: estimation, error analysis and dynamics.
Ecological Monographs 66(1):1-43.
- S.W. Pacala, C.D. Canham, J.A. Silander Jr. (1993) Forest models defined
by field measurements: I. The design of a northeastern forest simulator.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23:1980-1988.
Gecko Models
Ginger Booth, November 1, 1999