Disturbance behaviors

Disturbance behaviors simulate different kinds of forest disruption. These behaviors cause tree damage and death due to a variety of processes.

Behavior	Description
Density Dependent Infestation	Simulates a pathogen outbreak in the plot.
Competition Harvest	Performs harvests in a way that preferentially removes the most competitive individuals in a plot.
Generalized Harvest Regime	The behavior itself decides when harvests will occur and how much to cut based on total plot adult biomass, then chooses trees to cut with the help of a preference algorithm.
Harvest	Implements complex silvicultural treatments.
Harvest interface	Allows SORTIE to work directly with an external harvesting program.
Insect Infestation	Simulates an insect outbreak by choosing and marking infested trees.
Episodic mortality	Allows you to replicate tree-killing events with the same level of control you have when defining Harvest events.
Random browse	Simulates random browsing from herbivores.
Storm disturbance	Simulates the effects of wind damage from storms.
Storm damage applier	Decides which trees are damaged when a storm has occurred and how badly.
Storm damage killer	Kills trees damaged in storms.
Storm direct killer	Kills trees based on storm severity, without an intervening damage step.
Selection harvest	Allows you to specify target basal areas for a tree population as a method of harvest input, instead of designing specific harvest events.
Windstorm	Kills trees due to storm events.