Implementation of the Perfect Plasticity Approximation (PPA) model (Strigul et al. 2008) of tropical forest succession. Adapted from Rüger et al. 2020 (code written by Caroline Farrior, [email protected]; https://github.com/cfarrior/Ruger_etal_2020).
To run, simply source runscript.R with RStudio.
Rüger, N. et al. 2020. Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics. - Science (80-. ). 368: 165–168.
Strigul, N. et al. 2008. Scaling from Trees to Forests: Tractable Macroscopic Equations for Forest Dynamics. - Ecol. Monogr. 78: 523–545.