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SUMMARY:Spanish forest dynamics: Constraining models with data - Emily Lin
 es
DTSTART:20110520T120000Z
DTEND:20110520T123000Z
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CONTACT:Suzy Stoodley
DESCRIPTION:Forest ecosystems store more carbon than the atmosphere and co
 ntain 2/3 of the world's biodiversity but their response to changing clima
 te is uncertain. Landscape-level predictions of forest-climate dependency 
 can be made by scaling from key tree-level processes. New large-scale nati
 onal inventories combined with improvements in computational methods mean 
 that models that incorporate the climate dependency of demographic process
 es can be parameterised at regional scales. I present a set of results exa
 mining how tree allometry\, mortality\, growth and recruitment vary in Spa
 in. In particular I discuss recent results using novel Approximate Bayesia
 n Computation (ABC) methods to infer hidden processes from aggregated/summ
 arised data
LOCATION:Department of Plant Sciences\, Large Lecture Theatre
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