Demographic Benchmarking Initiative (D-BEN)

The Demographic Benchmarking Initiative (D-BEN) emerged from the TreeMort project. It has brought together most of the state-of-the-art Demographically enabled vegetation models (ORCHIDEE, FATES, JULES-RED,LPJ-GUESS, BiomE, BiomE-P, SEIB-DGVM, CABLE-POP,EDv3) to perform simulations at the same sites and compare against the same outputs.

The aim is
1) to arrive at a suite of benchmarks at local and global scale that can make our predictions more robust and credible.
2) highlight the strength of these models for performing policy-relevant simulations, both in terms of the output they produce, the dynamics they represent and the way they can be calibrated against real-world data.
3) be a forum to discuss areas that need attention going forward.