iLand - the individual-based forest landscape and disturbance model
This is the official GitHub repository of iLand.
iLand is a forest landscape model and simulates how individual trees grow, compete, die, and regenerate under various climate, disturbance, and management scenarios. Spanning scales from watersheds to landscapes (10,000+ hectares), iLand projects forest dynamics over decades and centuries, estimating species composition, stand structure, carbon storage, and potential impacts of climate change on disturbances and ecosystem services.
Used by a growing research community, this open-source tool (GNU GPL) is hosted at the Technical University of Munich but employed by research groups worldwide. The model has been steadily developed over the last 15 years and has been used on in more than 40 peer reviewed research papers.
Resources
- Offical home page: https://iland-model.org
- Scientifc publications: https://iland-model.org/iLand+publications
- Discord-community-channel: https://discord.gg/e5trneUKav or https://tinyurl.com/iland-discord
Instructions for building
iLand is a C++ application using the Qt toolkit. The easiest way to build iLand is to use Qt Creator. Detailed instructions for building the model are here: https://iland-model.org/iland-book/Building_iLand.html