TO: Kim Brown (and others who may be interested about responses to my inquire) REF: species - site matching problem ------------------------------------- I received several messages telling about the topic. A summary of contributions follow: a) One contributor sent this reference: Booth, T.H. 1990: Mapping regions climatically suitable for particular tree species at the globle scale. Forest Ecology and Management 36, 47-60. b) Other contributor wrote: Trevor Booth and Mike Austin of CSIRO (Forestry and Wildlife respectively) made something about. Briefly, and if I remember correctly: Trevor coupled a database of silvicultural characteristics (developed at Oxford) with BIOCLIM, an program that predicts envirnomental parameters, to _view_ where tree species might grow. Mike Austin has used BIOCLIM to predict where species might grow, identify critical habitats, and predict effects of global change/warming. c) A third contributor sent this reference: Gutierrez-Espeleta E. E. & C. W. Mize. 1993. A quantitative model for relating species and tropical forest sites: a synecological study. Rev. Biol. Trop. 41 (1):7-21. Si no podes conseguir una copia en UChile yo te podria mandar una separata si te interesa. Veras que este modelo es practicamente el algoritmo para un programa de computo. Tal vez en un futuro cercano haga el programa. Greetings from Costa Rica. d) She wrote: .. on our LAN under Database applications, there is a program called COMPUTREE that is a computerised version of Dr. Richard Poynton's Bulletin 39. (mostly eucalyptus information). I am not entirely sure how easily it can be accessed from where you are, but I will enquire from out EIT (Environmental Information Technology) programme whether we can be of assistance to you. e) He wrote: The method described in the following paper, although not doing exactly what is required, may be of interest: Newnham, R.M. 1968. A classification of climate by principal component anslysis and its relationship to tree species distribution. Forest Science 14(3): 254-264. It describes a PCA of meteorological data for the province of British Columbia and then relates the occurence of half a dozen tree species to the first two principal components. f) A kind canadian wrote: I believe that two scientists with the Canadian Forest Service in Sault Ste. Marie are working on something like the program you describe. Their names are Dan McKenney and Brendan Mackey, and they are working on a bio-environmental indicators project. I don't know whether they are on this FMDSS newsgroup, or on Internet for that matter. You could reach them at: Great Lakes Forestry Research Centre, 1219 Queen St. East, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, P6A 5M7, telephone (705) 949-9461. g) Trevor Booth himself wrote: I saw your enquiry re trees and climatic information. My colleagues and I have developed methods to interpolate climatic information and to use the information to help select species suitable for different environments. h) From Oxford I received this: With reference to your Email message of 11 October seeking information on species-site matching, for some 20 years we have had a database called INSPIRE (INteractive SPecies Information REtrieval) which covers 200 tropical plantation species and relates their performance and properties to a large number of site environmental variables... i) From Santiago I received: There is such a system in Mozambique, developed in the mid eighties. May be available through Ministry of Agriculture or FAO Mozambique. So we have at least: BIOCLIM (Trevor Booth) Australia Synecological study (Gutierrez Espeleta) Costa Rica COMPUTREE (Richard Poynton's book) South Africa Ppal Components (Newnham, R.M.) Canada Bio-environmental (McKenney & Mackey) Canada INSPIRE (Burley et al) Oxford UK Mozambican Model (Min. of Agriculture) Mozambique Thanks to all of them for this valuable information. FROM: infor@uchcecvm (Jose Eugenio de la Maza)
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