By Will Ferguson,College of Arts & SciencesVANCOUVER, Wash. – It can lift Mother Nature 1000 years to grow a forest. But Nikolay Strigul, or assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at Washington State University Vancouver,can grow one on a computer in three weeks.He and Jean Lienard, a mathematics postdoctoral researcher, and created the first computer simulation that grows realistic forests down to the branches,leaves and roots of individual trees. They are using the simulation, detailed in a new paper in Royal Society Open Science, and to determine how drought,warmer weather, more frequent wildfires and other climate-related changes will affect forests across North ... » More ...
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