Follow-up from "Add initial draft of validation report"
I have decided to resolve the two remaining threads on this topic as I currently have no answers to these questions and the branch is becoming increasingly outdated. I will come back to the questions in the next updates of the validation report and the ODD protocol.
The following discussions from !46 (merged) should be addressed:
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@reichold started a discussion: This might be misleading: Obviously the effect of considering the beech mast in the optimization can be reproduced when optimizing the same initial conditions separately (as that optimization will just select the same initial condition after the multiplication with the fructification factor).
I would say the point here was that we speculated that initial conditions might be closer to constant when considering the systematic effect of the beech mast as this would capture some of the multi-year dynamics we do not consider in the model.
(Finally, thinking about it now. We could have run just one sensitivity analysis and considered the beech mast via post-processing, i.e. dividing initial conditions by instead of multiplying with the fructification factor to achieve the same effect.)
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@reichold started a discussion: (+3 comments) Don't these two points primarily say something about having to individually vary these two initial conditions for our model to work out?