Title: 2.23. Plant Mortality — ctsm CTSM master documentation

URL Source: https://escomp.github.io/ctsm-docs/versions/master/html/tech_note/Plant_Mortality/CLM50_Tech_Note_Plant_Mortality.html

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Plant mortality as described here applies to perennial vegetation types, and is intended to represent the death of individuals from a stand of plants due to the aggregate of processes such as wind throw, insect attack, disease, extreme temperatures or drought, and age-related decline in vigor. These processes are referred to in aggregate as “gap-phase” mortality. Mortality due to fire and anthropogenic land cover change are treated separately (see Chapters [2.24](https://escomp.github.io/ctsm-docs/versions/master/html/tech_note/Fire/CLM50_Tech_Note_Fire.html#rst-fire) and [2.27](https://escomp.github.io/ctsm-docs/versions/master/html/tech_note/Transient_Landcover/CLM50_Tech_Note_Transient_Landcover.html#rst-transient-landcover-change), respectively).

