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The forest model FORCLIM 85<br />

Tab. 3.12: Default values <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> general parameters <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> FORCLIM-P model. The parameters <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

nitrogen response function are given <strong>in</strong> Tab. 3.13.<br />

Parameter Value Unit Reference<br />

kBrPr 5 – Kienast (1987)<br />

kEstP 0.1 yr -1 Kienast (1987)<br />

kEstNr 0.006 #·m -2·yr-1 Shugart (1984)<br />

kInitDBH 1.27 cm Botk<strong>in</strong> et al. (1972a)<br />

kPatchSize 833.3 m 2 Shugart & West (1977, 1979)<br />

kLAtt 0.25 – Wang et al. (1991), Smith et al. (1991)<br />

kDeathP 4.605 – Botk<strong>in</strong> et al. (1972a), Shugart (1984)<br />

kM<strong>in</strong>RelInc 10 % Kienast (1987), Solomon & Bartle<strong>in</strong> (1993)<br />

kM<strong>in</strong>AbsInc 0.03 cm Kienast (1987)<br />

kSGrYrs 2 yr Solomon & Bartle<strong>in</strong> (1993)<br />

kSlowGrP 0.368 yr -1 Shugart (1984), Kienast (1987)<br />

kDistP 0 %/100 –<br />

kAshFree 0.92 %/100 Pastor & Post (1985)<br />

kConv 0.0025 kg·cm -2 Christensen (1977)<br />

kRSR 4.0 – War<strong>in</strong>g & Schles<strong>in</strong>ger (1985)<br />

Tab. 3.13: Parameter values for <strong>the</strong> nitrogen response function (Eq. 3.27) <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> growth submodel <strong>of</strong><br />

FORCLIM-P. Data recalculated from Aber et al. (1979) and Pastor & Post (1985).<br />

kNTols<br />

kN1<br />

[–]<br />

kN2<br />

[kg·ha -1·yr -1 ]<br />

1 -0.016 2.245<br />

2 -0.022 30.605<br />

3 -0.016 43.973

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