Dear all
I have not looked at them in detail but they are really an old idea
with some fancy new technology - a formal presentation of consequences
rather than dynamic models that describe processes and can extrapolate
to new conditions. The question is - what new testable hypotheses can
be derived from such models? and what predictions can one make with them
for new sets of management and environmental conditions?
As CT det Wit said - no simulation without experimentation.
Best wishes
John R Porter
Professor Dr John R Porter DSc
Agriculture and Ecology
University of Copenhagen
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>>> Larry Lugo <[log in to unmask]> 27/03/2011 18:56 >>>
Hi to all. I think it could be very interesting to discuss why
Functional-Structural models domain the Annals of Botany Special Issue
on Plant Growth Modelling. Is the former way the best to model plant
growth instead of DSSAT and similar software?
--- On Sat, 3/26/11, Gerrit Hoogenboom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Gerrit Hoogenboom <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Annals of Botany Special Issue on Plant Growth Modelling
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Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011, 12:59 AM
Dear Colleague
The Annals of Botany will soon be publishing a Special Issue on “Plant
Growth and Architectural Modelling, and its Applications”. The Special
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