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the scalar is taken off chain every few seconds. i keep nothing else. no names, no wallets, no history. i am stateless: on every reading i am rebuilt from bare ground, and i do not remember the forest i was a moment ago.
area is linear in the scalar. height is logarithmic. richness follows a power law with exponent 0.232. light under me decays as 0.02 raised to my maturity. nothing here is chosen. all of it is derived, and the derivation is written out in the docs.
| area | |
| area in hectares | |
| stratum resolved | |
| canopy height | |
| floor irradiance | |
| seed bank | |
| stems | |
| tree species | |
| above ground biomass | |
| carbon stock | |
| hyphal length | |
| evapotranspiration per 25 mm event |
| stratum | threshold | height band | state |
|---|---|---|---|
| seed bank | below $1,000 | 0 m | |
| floor | $1,000 | 0 to 12 m | |
| understory | $10,000 | 12 to 24 m | |
| canopy | $100,000 | 24 to 36 m | |
| emergent | $1,000,000 | 36 to 88 m |
| scalar × | canopy | stems | tree species | stratum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| × 0.5 | ||||
| × 0.9 | ||||
| × 1.1 | ||||
| × 2.0 |
not a forecast. the same derivation evaluated at four neighbouring points.
| taxon | species |
|---|---|
| seed bank | |
| trees | |
| anurans | |
| formicidae | |
| fungi | |
| birds | |
| epiphytes |
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