Edit Planting Window

This window is reached from the Edit Episodic Events Window by clicking on the "Plantings" tab and selecting "New" or "Edit".

This window is where you create a new planting event or edit an existing one. Along the left portion of the window, you enter data about the planting. On the map in the center, you select the area of the plot to which to apply your planting. If a tree map has been entered, those trees are displayed on the map and the species key is to the right. (For more on tree maps and episodic events, see the Edit Episodic Events Window topic.)

Entering data about the planting

Timestep. Enter the timestep in which you wish the planting to occur. You can create more than one planting per timestep.

Percentage of each species. For each species, enter the percentage of total trees planted that should be of that species, as a value between 0 and 100. Enter zero in order to not plant a species. Values should add up to 100. When SORTIE plants a seedling, it compares a random number to these values to determine its species. This ensures a random distribution of species in the planted population, but it also means that, if the number of seedlings to plant is small, the actual percentages of each species planted may not exactly match the entered values.

Plant spacing. Select the seedling spacing. If you select "Gridded", the seedlings are placed at a fixed distance from each other. If you select "Random", the seedlings are randomly scattered around the plant area.

# total trees/ha. You enter this value if the "Plant spacing" is set to "Random". This is the total number of seedlings to plant, as a value per hectare. SORTIE determines the actual number to plant by multiplying this value by the planting area.

Spacing (m). You enter this value if the "Plant spacing" is set to "Gridded". This is the distance, in meters, between newly planted seedlings in an 8 meter by 8 meter plot grid cell. If this distance is larger than 4, only one seedling per grid cell will be planted.

Choosing the area to which to apply the planting

To specify the plot area to which to apply the planting, select the appropriate cells on the map. Cells are each 8 meters by 8 meters. Selected cells will show up in color, and unselected cells will be white. You can click and drag to mark out an area, or click on individual cells. Clicking or dragging on selected (colored) cells causes them to become unselected (white).