Articles | Volume 15, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4783-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4783-2022
Development and technical paper
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21 Jun 2022
Development and technical paper |  | 21 Jun 2022

Using terrestrial laser scanning to constrain forest ecosystem structure and functions in the Ecosystem Demography model (ED2.2)

Félicien Meunier, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Marc Peaucelle, Kim Calders, Louise Terryn, Wim Verbruggen, Chang Liu, Ninni Saarinen, Niall Origo, Joanne Nightingale, Mathias Disney, Yadvinder Malhi, and Hans Verbeeck

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on gmd-2021-59', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Apr 2021
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Félicien Meunier, 06 Jul 2021
  • RC2: 'Comment on gmd-2021-59', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 May 2021
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Félicien Meunier, 06 Jul 2021
  • CEC1: 'Comment on gmd-2021-59', Juan Antonio Añel, 17 May 2021
    • AC3: 'Reply on CEC1', Félicien Meunier, 06 Jul 2021

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Félicien Meunier on behalf of the Authors (16 Mar 2022)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Mar 2022) by Carlos Sierra
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (06 Apr 2022)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (24 Apr 2022) by Carlos Sierra
AR by Félicien Meunier on behalf of the Authors (12 May 2022)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (21 May 2022) by Carlos Sierra
AR by Félicien Meunier on behalf of the Authors (23 May 2022)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (24 May 2022) by Carlos Sierra
AR by Félicien Meunier on behalf of the Authors (25 May 2022)  Author's response    Manuscript
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Short summary
We integrated state-of-the-art observations of the structure of the vegetation in a temperate forest to constrain a vegetation model that aims to reproduce such an ecosystem in silico. We showed that the use of this information helps to constrain the model structure, its critical parameters, as well as its initial state. This research confirms the critical importance of the representation of the vegetation structure in vegetation models and proposes a method to overcome this challenge.