Article Dans Une Revue Annals of Forest Science Année : 2025

PDG-Arena: an ecophysiological model for characterizing tree-tree interactions in heterogeneous and mixed stands

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Key messagePDG-Arena, a new individual- and process-based ecophysiological model, was developed to simulate the functioning of mixed-species forests. It was evaluated using annual growth data on beech-fir stands of the French Prealps.ContextIn the context of the ongoing climate and biodiversity crises, mixed forest stands are increasingly considered as a sustainable management alternative to monospecific and even-aged stands.AimsWe developed a new individual- and process-based forest growth model, PDG-Arena, to simulate mixed forest growth and functioning, and test ecophysiological interactions among trees in mixed stands.MethodsThe model builds upon the validated ecophysiological stand-scale model CASTANEA and integrates tree competition for light and water. We evaluated the performance of PDG-Arena by comparing the simulated growth with annual radial growth data from 37 common beech and silver fir monospecific and mixed plots in the French Prealps.ResultsPDG-Arena performed slightly better than CASTANEA when simulating even-age and monospecific forests (r2 of 32.1 versus 29.5%). When using structure-diverse and species-diverse inventories, PDG-Arena performed better than CASTANEA in pure beech (38.3 versus 22.9%) and mixed stands (40.5 versus 36.3%), but not in pure fir stands (39.8 versus 42.0%). The new model also showed a significant positive effect of species mixing on gross primary production (+ 5.5%), canopy absorbance (+ 11.1%), and transpiration (+ 15.8%) in the tested stands.ConclusionsOur results show that tree-level process-based models such as PDG-Arena, formally simulating interspecific interactions, can serve as a valuable tool to understand and simulate the carbon, radiative, and water dynamics of mixed stands.

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hal-04973308 , version 1 (20-06-2024)
hal-04973308 , version 2 (11-09-2024)
hal-04973308 , version 3 (03-03-2025)

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Camille Rouet, Hendrik Davi, Arsène Druel, Bruno Fady, Xavier Morin. PDG-Arena: an ecophysiological model for characterizing tree-tree interactions in heterogeneous and mixed stands. Annals of Forest Science, 2025, 82 (1), pp.8. ⟨10.1186/s13595-025-01277-8⟩. ⟨hal-04973308v3⟩
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