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Author Chen, Jiquan, 1962- author.

Title Biophysical models and applications in ecosystem analysis / Jiquan Chen
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 153 pages) : illustrations
Summary "The past five decades have witnessed a rapid growth of computer models for simulating ecosystem functions and dynamics. This has been fueled by the availability of remote sensing data, computation capability, and cross-disciplinary sciences. These models contain many sub-modules for simulating different processes and forcing mechanisms, albeit it has become challenging to truly understand the details due to their complexity. Most ecosystem models, fortunately, are rooted in a few core biophysical foundations, such as widely recognized Farquhar's model, Ball-Berry-Leuning-Medlyn family models, Penman-Monteith model, Priestley-Taylor Model, Machaelis-Menten kinetics, and others. After an introduction of biophysical essentials, four chapters present the core algorithms and their behaviors in modeling ecosystem production, respiration, evapotranspiration, and global warming potentials"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 1, 2021)
Subject Ecology -- Simulation methods.
Biotic communities -- Simulation methods
Biotic communities -- Research -- Methodology
Biotic communities -- Research -- Methodology
Biotic communities -- Simulation methods
Ecology -- Simulation methods
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781609176679
1609176677