Edit Mortality Episode Window

This window is reached from the Edit Episodic Events Window by clicking on the "Mortality Episodes" tab and selecting "New" or "Edit".

This window is where you create a new planned mortality episode or edit an existing one. Along the left portion of the window, you enter data about the planned mortality episode. On the map in the center, you select the area of the plot to which to apply your planned mortality episode. If a tree map has been entered, those trees are displayed on the map and the species key is to the right. (For more on tree maps and episodic events, see the Edit Episodic Events Window topic.)

In this document:
Entering data about the planned mortality episode
Choosing the area to which to apply the planned mortality episode

Entering data about the planned mortality episode

Timestep. Enter the timestep in which you wish the planned mortality episode to occur. You can create more than one planned mortality episode per timestep.

Species applied to. Put a checkbox next to each species to which this planned mortality episode is to apply. If a species is not checked, no trees of that species will be killed. You can kill trees of the same species more than once in a timestep, but if the areas of the two planned mortality episodes overlap, there is no attempt to consolidate them and you may not get the results you expect.

Amount of mortality type. Enter how you intend to specify the amount of trees to kill in each size class to which the planned mortality episode applies. The same amount type applies to all size classes.

Diameter Range(s) to kill. Enter the size class ranges you are killing. You must enter at least one. For each size class, enter the minimum and maximum DBH, and the amount to kill in that range. The units of amount to kill will depend on what you have entered in "Amount of mortality type". Kill ranges may not overlap.

Choosing the area to which to apply the planned mortality episode

To specify the plot area to which to apply the planned mortality episode, select the appropriate cells on the map. Cells are each 8 meters by 8 meters. Selected cells will show up in color, and unselected cells will be white. You can click and drag to mark out an area, or click on individual cells. Clicking or dragging on selected (colored) cells causes them to become unselected (white).

07-Dec-2004 10:55 AM