Eric J Guerin

1. Introduction Computer-generated planets are a staple of speculative media and appear widely in films and video games. They are also useful in an educational context to illustrate the possible structure of our Earth in the distant past or far future.

Background Forests provide crucial ecosystem services that are vital to humanity (Sarre 2020), but these services are increasingly jeopardised by anthropogenic climate change. Understanding the long-term impact of these novel pressures is essential for developing adaptive management strategies and evaluating climate mitigation options. Assessment at the landscape scale is particularly critical, and consequently, numerous forest landscape models, such as LANDIS (Gustafson et al.

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