Validation of a dynamic stem diameter variation model and the resulting seasonal changes in calibrated parameter values Universiteit Gent
Validation of ecological models is not a straightforward task and much controversy exists in the published literature on the exact definition. A lot of approaches have been suggested, without one being clearly superior. In this paper, we use the earlier published dynamic 'RCGro' tree water flow and storage model as an illustrative example to address some model validation issues. We show that the model fails validation when confronted with a data ...