Publication
Recent knowledge about tree regeneration, shifting mosaic in the herb layer or complex interactions between cattle activities, vegetation and landscape structure has allowed the development of a novel, spatially explicit, mosaic compartment model of the dynamics of silvopastoral ecosystems (WOODPAM). This deterministic model considers three hierarchical levels: the focal level is the phytocoenosis, represented by a cell or a patch in the landscape with a variable local stock density; herb and shrub communities as well as size-structured tree populations are the components of each patch at the lower level, spatially implicit; patches are aggregated in a pastoral management unit building the higher level, with an externally controlled global stock density.
Paul Robert Guhennec, Valentine Bernasconi, Ludovica Schaerf
Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot, Marine Françoise Jeannine Villaret
Maud Ehrmann, Frédéric Clavert