EFISCEN-space

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Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name	European Forest Information SCENario Model - Space
Has acronym	EFISCEN-space
Has wiki contact person
Has wiki contact e-mail	sara.filipek@wur.nl; efiscen@efi.intURIs of the form "sara.filipek@wur.nl; efiscen@efi.int" are not allowed.

Software identification

Has software	EFISCEN-space.Software

Description

Has description	EFISCEN-Space is under development since 2006, as a successor of the EFISCEN model. It is a diameter-class model, operating at the stand level with growth driven by environmental datasets with pan-European coverage. This set-up allows handling a wide variety of stand types (also mixed and uneven-aged) and management options, at the level of individual NFI plots, located anywhere in Europe. The state of each plot for every simulation step of one year is expressed as a distribution of number of trees over diameter classes, per species or species group (currently 20 species groups). At the plot level EFISCEN-Space distinguishes the ecological processes of tree growth, tree mortality, tree ingrowth and soil biomass decomposition, and management processes such as tree harvesting and tree planting. The known location (plot coordinates) allows coupling of the modelled processes to exogenous location descriptors in terms of soil, weather and climate. In the future, interactions with processes operating at the landscape level and/or country level will be added, but these are not part of the current version of EFISCEN-Space. EFISCEN-Space is modular, such that depending on the aim of the application and resources available, modules can operate on different levels of detail, or can be excluded if not relevant. Currently the model is applied to 15 countries in Europe that have made their detailed NFI data available for this modelling effort. The development of EFISCEN-Space model profited from numerous national and international projects including several Framework Programmes from the European Commission as well as the Horizon 2020 grant from Netherlands' Ministry of Research. Additional funding and co-funding of the EU-projects was received from various projects under the Knowledge Base programmes of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Security.
Has modelling scope	Forest indicators, Ecological indicators, Climate change
Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic)
Has spatial context
Has spatial scale
Has objectives dimension
Has related DSS
Has goods and services dimension	Market wood products
Has decision making dimension
Has forest management goal	biodiversity evaluation, carbon sequestration, fire behaviour, forest vegetation management, multi-functional
Supports tree species
Supports silvicultural regime	user defined

Concrete application

Has typical use case
Has user profile
Has country	Sweden
Has references about examples of application
Has number of users	N/A
Has number of real-life applications	N/A
Has utilisation in education	N/A
Has research project reference
Has tool dissemination

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques	EFISCEN-space.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes	EFISCEN-space.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation	EFISCEN-space.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development	EFISCEN-space.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website	https://www.wur.nl/nl/project/european-forest-resource-analysis-tools.htm
Has online demo	https://efi.int/knowledge/models/efiscen/availability
Has manual	No
Has technical documentation	No
Has reference	https://efi.int/knowledge/models/efiscen