Development and application
The Biome-BGC model (Thornton, 1998) in the version 4.1.1 (Thornton et al., 2002) was extended by work at BOKU with emphasis mainly on:
- ground water access (Pietsch et al., 2003)
- parameterizations for main tree species in Central Europe (Pietsch et al., 2005)
- evaluation and improvement of the self-initialization procedure (Pietsch & Hasenauer, 2006)
- considering forest management (Petritsch et al., 2007)
It was used in studies regarding:
- growth response to environmental impacts (Hasenauer et al., 1999)
- influence of thinning on ecosystem fluxes (Petritsch et al., 2004)
- effect of different harvesting regimes (Merganicová et al., 2005)
- analysis of coppice forests with standards (Pietsch & Hasenauer, 2007)