Data from: Extending the use of ecological models without sacrificing details: a generic and parsimonious meta-modelling approach

Process-based models (PBMs, see table 1 for a list of abbreviations) are
essential tools to assess ecosystem response to climate change, land use
changes, extreme weather patterns, or other environmental disturbances.
PBMs allow to deal with the high level of interactions and feedbacks which
are intrinsic to ecological processes, but their complexity comes at the
cost of computation time and memory. Because of that, there is a trade-off
between the resolution satisfactory to describe ecological processes (e.g.
organism, population, species, vegetation type …), and the computing
constraints when applying PBMs at a large spatial extent and/or long time
periods.