CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
ICREA, E08010 Barcelona, Spain
Raúl García-Valdés
Department of Biology and Geology, Physics and Inorganic Chemistry, Rey Juan Carlos University, c/ Tulipán s/n, 28933 Móstoles, Spain
Daniel Nadal-Sala
CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research – Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, University of Barcelona (UB),
Av. Diagonal 645, E08028 Barcelona, Spain
Santiago Sabaté
CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, University of Barcelona (UB),
Av. Diagonal 645, E08028 Barcelona, Spain
Nicolas Martin-StPaul
Écologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes (URFM), INRAE, Avignon, France
Xavier Morin
CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
Francesco D'Adamo
CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
Enric Batllori
Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, University of Barcelona (UB),
Av. Diagonal 645, E08028 Barcelona, Spain
Regional-level applications of dynamic vegetation models are challenging because they need to accommodate the variation in plant functional diversity. This can be done by estimating parameters from available plant trait databases while adopting alternative solutions for missing data. Here we present the design, parameterization and evaluation of MEDFATE (version 2.9.3), a novel model of forest dynamics for its application over a region in the western Mediterranean Basin.
Regional-level applications of dynamic vegetation models are challenging because they need to...