The demography module

The functionality of the demography module is split into the following submodules

• The flora module that defines the set of plant functional traits used in demographic modelling and the classes used to represent those traits.

• The cohorts module that implements size-structured cohorts of plants with traits drawn from a flora.

• The t_model module ([overview])(./t_model.md) module that implements the T Model (Li et al., 2014) to provide:

  • an allometric model of stem properties, and

  • a carbon allocation model of plant maintenance and growth.

• The crown module that implements a three dimensional model of crown shape taken from the Plant-FATE model (Joshi et al., 2022).

• The canopy module that generates a model of the canopy structure for a set of cohorts, based on the Perfect Plasticity Approximation model (Purves et al., 2008). This module also calculates light capture through the canopy by the different cohorts in the community.