A Scalable Parallel Algorithm for Forest Ecosystem Modeling Problem.

Forest Ecosystem Modeling is a difficult problem, because 1) It's generally hard to isolate the factors that have influence on a tree species growth; 2) with interplay of multiple plant species, it's essentially an NP complete problem. The above characters make this problem an ideal candidate for distributed simulations. A variable resolution scheme of individual modeling is proposed. This paper suggests a scalable parallel solution to the forest ecosystem modeling problem, which not only helps our understanding of such complex ecology system, but also makes large scale forest ecosystem management a reachable goal.