A CEES project
Tree mortality is central to an understanding of almost anything to do with forests, and yet we currently know little about the nature or magnitude of variation in tree mortality, how it depends on species, climate, or extreme events, or how best to include it in simulation models. This project aims to combine new models, with large forest inventory databases, to enable reliable predictions of tree mortality at scales from the individual tree, through the forest stand, to the globe.
People
Dr Drew Purves (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Dr Matt Smith (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Dr Mark Vanderwel (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Dr Miguel Zavala (CIFOR-Madrid)
Dr David Coomes (University of Cambridge)
Dr Christian Wirth (Max-Planck, Jena)
Dr Aleksi Lehtonen (The Finnish Forest Research Institute)
Prof. John Caspersen (University of Toronto)
Prof. Oliver Phillips (University of Leeds)
Dr Simon Lewis (University of Leeds)
Dr Emanuel Gloor (University of Leeds)
Nikee Groot (PhD student, University of Leeds)
Emily Lines (PhD student, University of Cambridge)
- Emily R Lines, Miguel A Zavala, Drew W Purves, and David A Coomes, Predictable changes in aboveground allometry of trees along gradients of temperature, aridity and competition, in Global Ecology and Biogeography, Wiley, February 2012
- Caspersen, John P., Vanderwel, Mark C., Cole, William G., Purves, and Drew W., How stand productivity results from size- and competition-dependent growth and mortality, in PLoS ONE, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. e28660, December 2011
- Emily R Lines, David A Coomes, and Drew Purves, Influences of Forest Structure, Climate and Species Composition on Tree Mortality across the Eastern US, in PLoS-One, vol. 5, no. 10, PLoS, October 2010
- Drew Purves, The demography of range boundaries vs range cores in Eastern US tree species, in Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, vol. 276, pp. 1477-1484, 25 February 2009
- Drew W Purves, Jeremy W Lichstein, Nikolay Strigul, and Stephen W Pacala, Predicting and understanding forest dynamics using a simple tractable model, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 29 October 2008
- Drew W Purves and Stephen W Pacala, Predictive Models of Forest Dynamics, in Science, vol. 320, no. 5882, pp. 1452-1453, 13 June 2008
