From this slime of seedlings could emerge spatially explicit saplings. These in turn could become individual filler plants similar to those in gap models, whose canopy occupies the entire gap - or in the case of MUSE, the entire cell. In a savanna model, trees could be represented in some detail by shaped plants while grass under the tree could be treated as one filler plant. MUSE will make any user-defined data declared in your model available for editing, graphing, saving and exporting. Any number and type of disturbances can be defined.
Disturbances can occur locally at the cell level or globally across the whole entire site.
Any number of soil types. MUSE supplies all resource competition calculations based on the plant geometry evolving from your allometric functions. The calculation of resource competition can also include considerations of sun angle on various time scales. MUSE supplies an above and below ground strata system. Vertical spatial detail can be varied by changing the widths of the strata.