Michaelis Menton with negative growth - height only

This behavior uses a modified Michaelis-Menton function to do height growth. You can optionally add autocorrelation and a degree of stochasticity to the growth.

Parameters for this behavior

How it works

The amount of height growth is calculated as:

where:

• Y is the amount of height growth for one year, in cm
• GLI is the light level
• α is the Michaelis-Menton Neg Growth - Alpha parameter
• β is the Michaelis-Menton Neg Growth - Beta parameter
• γ is the Michaelis-Menton Neg Growth - Gamma parameter
• φ is the Michaelis-Menton Neg Growth - Phi parameter
• H is the tree's height in cm

Optionally, the value of Y can be randomized by adding to it a stochastic factor SF, which is a random draw on a normal distribution with mean zero and standard deviation set using the Michaelis-Menton Neg Growth - Growth Standard Deviation parameter. SF can be positive or negative and is in units of centimeters of height growth. If you do not want to add SF, set the value of this parameter to zero.

If you are using the stochastic factor SF, you can also introduce autocorrelation in the growth stochasticity. Each year, for each tree, a random number is compared to the value in the Michaelis-Menton Neg Growth - Autocorrelation Prob (0-1) parameter for that tree's species to determine if the stochastic factor will be autocorrelated for that year. If it is autocorrelated, the previous year's stochastic factor SF is added to Y to determine height growth. If it is not autocorrelated, a new value for SF is drawn. If you do not wish to use autocorrelation, set the value of the autocorrelation parameter to zero. Autocorrelation is ignored if there is no growth stochasticity.

If the timestep is more than one year long, growth is recalculated for each year of the timestep, increasing the height each time. Stochasticity and autocorrelation are also evaluated on a yearly basis.

How to apply it

This behavior can be applied to seedlings, saplings, and adults of any species. Any tree species/type combination to which it is applied must also have a light behavior and a diameter growth behavior applied.