Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS)

Highlights

• NEW! FVS Newsletter, Issue 1, January 13, 2017 (PDF, 80 KB)
  FVS Newsletters
• NOTE: 2017 Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) e-Conference, February 28 to March 2, 2017
• 2016-2017 FVS Training Season Sessions and Registration
• Forest Management Service Center Fiscal Annual Report Fiscal Year 2016 (PDF, 669 KB)
• Why does the Suppose interface have connection errors with Microsoft Access Databases in either Windows 7 or Windows 10 Operating Systems? See the answer…
• Forest Vegetation Simulator Instructional Videos
• FVS Carbon Reports
• Climate-FVS

Related Links

• Forest Inventory & Analysis (FIA)
• Field Sampled Vegetation (FSVeg)
• Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team (FHTET)
• Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)
• Climate-FVS Ready Data (RMRS-Moscow)

The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a family of forest growth simulation models. It is a system of highly integrated analytical tools that is based upon a body of scientific knowledge developed from decades of natural resources research and experience. Since the development of the first model for northern Idaho in 1973, FVS has evolved into a collection of “variants” which represent different geographic areas across the country.

FVS answers questions about how forest vegetation will change in response to natural succession, disturbances, and proposed management actions. Extensions to the base model are available to assess the effects of insects, disease, and fire. The Fire & Fuels Extension (FFE) includes live tree, dead tree, down dead wood and forest floor biomass information, which can be used to estimate changes in carbon stocks over time.

A climate-sensitive version known as Climate-FVS is currently available for western states, and an eastern version is in development. Climate-FVS changes core growth, mortality, and regeneration estimates to respond to climate change, according a user-selected general circulation model (GCM), thereby allowing users to model the effects of management under changing climate conditions.

Resources

• What is FVS?
  The FVS modeling system and its components.
• Software
  FVS program and associated software.
• Documents
  FVS User Guides and reference documents.
• Training
  Self-guided and instructor lead sessions, plus Webinars.
• Support
  Helpdesk, contact information, and on-line resources.

Last modified: Wednesday, 28-Sep-2016 13:50:21 CDT