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Developer(s):
  • Tom Roe
    ESSA Technologies
  • Kelly Robson
    ESSA Technologies
  • Donald C. E. Robinson
    ESSA Technologies
  • Nicolaas Kuit
    ESSA Technologies
  • Leonardo Frid
    Apex Resource Management Solutions Ltd.
  • Colin Daniel
    ESSA Technologies
  • David Carr
    ESSA Technologies
  • Sarah J. Beukema
    ESSA Technologies
  • Philip Bailey
    ESSA Technologies
  • Diana Abraham
    ESSA Technologies
Collaborator(s):
  • Susan L. Schilling
    US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
  • Andy Taylor
  • Jim Smith
    The Nature Conservancy
  • James Merzenich
  • Kori Blankenship
    The Nature Conservancy
  • Kelly Pohl
    The Nature Conservancy
  • Kathy Schon
  • Donald G. Long
    US Forest Service
  • Alan E. Harvey
  • Jim Byler
  • Wendel J. Hann
    University of Idaho
  • Paul F. Hessburg
    US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Distribution Contact(s):
  • ESSA Technologies
Publication Date: 2007

The Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) is a user-friendly, Windows-based computer tool which provides a state and transition landscape modelling framework for examining the role of various disturbance agents and management actions in vegetation change. It allows users to create and test descriptions of vegetation dynamics, simulating them at the landscape level.

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Cataloging Information

Topics:
Fire Ecology    Fuels    Models    Planning
Regions:
Alaska    California    Eastern    Great Basin    Hawaii    Northern Rockies    Northwest    Rocky Mountain    Southern    Southwest    National
Keywords:
  • disturbances
  • landscape modeling
  • vegetation composition
  • vegetation dynamics
  • vegetation structure
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Record Maintained By: FRAMES Staff (https://www.frames.gov/contact)
FRAMES Record Number: 990