Quoted from: Gilhespy, Sarah L., Steven Anthony, Laura Cardenas, David Chadwick, Agustin del Prado, Changsheng Li, Thomas Misselbrook et al. "First 20 years of DNDC (DeNitrification DeComposition): model evolution." Ecological modelling 292 (2014): 51-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.09.004
Forest-DNDC is a model for predicting forest production, soil C sequestration, and trace gas emissions in upland and wetland forested ecosystems (Li et al., 2005). In common with PnET-DNDC and the later Wetland-DNDC, the core of Forest-DNDC was constructed by integrating PnET, a forest physiological model developed by Aber et al. (1996), with DNDC. The integration created a new modelling framework to fill some gaps existing in most forest models in terms of the linkage between forest and soil processes. Major management practices, such as deforestation, reforestation, thinning, burning, drainage, wetland restoration, fertilisation etc., were parameterised and linked to the plant-soil processes as applied in the modified Wetland-DNDC model (Li et al., 2004a). Equipped with these functions, Forest-DNDC is capable of simulating C and N cycles for both wetland and upland forest ecosystems.