ArticleAnnals of botany2020
Investigating tree and fruit growth through functional-structural modelling: implications of carbon autonomy at different scales.
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- Integrating terrestrial laser scanning with functional-structural plant models to investigate ecological and evolutionary processes of forest communities.Annals of botany · 2021Article
- Two decades of functional-structural plant modelling: now addressing fundamental questions in systems biology and predictive ecology.Annals of botany · 2020Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsMany experimental studies assume that some topological units are autonomous with regard to carbon because it is convenient. Some plant models simulate carbon allocation, employing complex approaches that require calibration and fitted parameters. For whole-tree canopy simulations, simpler carbon allocation models can provide useful insights.
methodsWe propose a new method for simulating carbon allocation in the whole tree canopy considering various scales of carbon autonomy, i.e. branchlets, branches, limbs, and no autonomy. This method was implemented in a functional-structural plant model of growth of individual organs for studying macadamia tree growth during one growing season. KEY
resultsThis model allows the simulation of various scales of carbon autonomy in a simple tree canopy, showing organ within-tree variability according to the scale of autonomy. Using a real tree canopy, we observed differences in growth variability within the tree and in tree growth, with several scales of carbon autonomy. The simulations that assumed autonomy at branch scale, i.e. 2-year-old wood, showed the most realistic results.
conclusionsSimulations using this model were employed to investigate and explain aspects of differences in carbon autonomy between trees, organ growth variability, competition between shoot and fruit growth, and time of autonomy.
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