Usefull modules and extensions

[mcwimm]

Recruitment/ Population

• Possibility to initialize plants with parameters drawn from distribution -> new tag option: "Random Random" for random position and random initial parameters @mcwimm
• recruitment position not random but dependent on environment and plants fitness @ChrisWudel
• at the moment an initial population from a file (GroupFromFile) requires Bettina geometries although they are not used in Kiwi

Resource concepts with grid system

• Above-ground resources
  • asymmetric ZOI extension: include a factor describing shade tolerance of plants. Without factor freshly recruited plants often die immediatly if they are fully shaded. @jvollhueter @mcwimm
  • Radiation (e.g.) as variable input similar to salinity @mcwimm
• Below-ground resources
  • devide FON module in competition and resource limitation @mcwimm - Separate salt stress and tree-to-tree competition in FON #272
  • introduce merge class (e.g. FixedSalinity + symZoi) - New module to use multiple below-ground modules #266
  • FixedSalinity: more spatial points (not only x-min and x-max)
• decouple grid size and initial plant size @jvollhueter @mcwimm - Min. grid size #274

Plant modules

• include dieback @zaphod-bx
• variation in species specific parameters, e.g. kf_sap or psi_leaf, as funtion(environment) @zaphod-bx