View the Project on GitHub LANDIS-II-Foundation/Extension-Land-Use-Plus
The Land Use Plus (LU+) extension allows users to incorporate a sequence of maps depicting changes in land use, land cover, or other user-defined disturbances. Map values correspond to prescribed forest changes where changes in map value trigger a prescribed forest change. Forest change prescriptions are derived from, and analogous to, the harvest prescriptions used in the Biomass Harvest extension.
Incorporate land use or land cover change into LANDIS-II simulations. Create reactive land use or land cover changes using PAUSE functionality. Simulate forest stressors (i.e. disturbance caused by insects). Remove biomass according to user-defined land cover class prescriptions.
Latest official release: Version 3.0 — February 2021 This extension was formerly named Land Use Plus and informally named Land Use Change. LU+ User Guide. Full release details found in the LU+ User Guide and on GitHub.
To use LU+, you need:
The LANDIS-II model v7.0 installed on your computer, a succession extension, an output extension. We use PnET Succession and PnET Output. Example files (see below) Download Version 3.0 can be downloaded here. To install it on your computer, just launch the installer.
Thompson, J.T., E. Simons-Legaard, K. Legaard, J.B. Domingo, 2016. A LANDIS-II extension for incorporating land use and other disturbances. Environ. Model. & Software. 75:202-205.
LANDIS-II requires a global parameter file for your scenario, and then different parameter files for each extension.
If you have a question, please contact Jonathan Thompson at jthomps@fas.harvard.edu. You can also ask for help in the LANDIS-II users group.
If you come across any issue or suspected bug when using LU+, please post about it in the issue section of the Github repository.
Jonathan Thompson
Senior Scientist at Harvard Forest
Mail : jthomps@fas.harvard.edu