SORTIE-ND User Manual
SORTIE-ND License
What's new in the latest version
Basic SORTIE modeling concepts
Setting up SORTIE-ND for your site
The SORTIE-ND plot
Timesteps and run length
Trees
What is a tree?
Tree population - how trees are organized
Tree life history stages and transitions
Tree allometry
Setting up trees: parameters
Setting up tree initial conditions
Tree data member list
Behaviors
What is a behavior?
The relationship of behaviors to trees and grids
Choosing behaviors for a run
Setting up behaviors: parameters
Complete behavior documentation
State change behaviors
Harvest and disturbance behaviors
Management behaviors
Light behaviors
Growth behaviors
Mortality behaviors
Substrate behaviors
Epiphytic establishment behaviors
Mortality utility behaviors
Snag dynamics behaviors
Disperse behaviors
Seed predation behaviors
Establishment behaviors
Planting behaviors
Analysis behaviors
Grids
What is a grid?
How grids are created and used
Grid cell size
Setting up grid initial conditions
Individual grid documentation
Creating a parameter file
Setting up output
Types of output files
Output strategies
Tree output
Grid output
Subplots in output
Setting up output
Using output as input to a new run
Viewing output
Loading and displaying data from an output file
Extracting chart data into text format
Batch extracting chart data into text format
Viewing output data while a run is still in progress
Output chart types
Line graphs
Histograms
Tree map
Grid maps
Tables
Starting and managing a run
Batching
Files in SORTIE-ND
Parameter files
Detailed output files
Summary output files
Tab-delimited tree map files
The SORTIE-ND menu
File menu
Batch setup window
Edit menu
Parameters window
Harvest interface window
Schedule storms window
Tree population - set allometry functions window
Tree population - edit species list window
Tree population - edit initial density size classes window
Tree population - manage tree maps window
Grid setup window
Grid value edit window
Model flow window
Current run behaviors window
Tree behavior edit window
Tree assignments window
Episodic events window
Edit harvest window
Edit mortality episode window
Edit planting window
Edit harvest interface window
Edit diameter at 10 cm window
Output options window
Setup detailed output file window
Setup tree save options window
Setup grid save options window
Summary output file setup window
Edit subplots window
Model menu
Tools menu
Help menu
Math in SORTIE-ND
References
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