Vincent Migault, D. Combes, P. Barre, B. Gueye, G. Louarn, A. Escobar-Gutiérrez
{"title":"Improved modelling of ryegrass foliar growth","authors":"Vincent Migault, D. Combes, P. Barre, B. Gueye, G. Louarn, A. Escobar-Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1109/PMA.2012.6524847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PMA.2012.6524847","url":null,"abstract":"To understand how the grassland use-value is creates, it is necessary to study and model the morphogenesis of plants. This study focuses on one part of the morphogenesis, the modelling of foliar growth using mathematical function. The aim of this study is to evaluate fitting performance of five functions on foliar growth kinetics. The five selected functions are: Logistic, Chanter, Gompertz, Hyperbola and Beta Growth function. To evaluate fitting performance of functions, data from a greenhouse experiment were used. These data are the kinetics of leaf growth of 1933 leaves from 10 genotypes under 4 light quality treatments. This experiment recreates genetic and light diversity as in field condition. The comparison of goodness of fit using criteria such as sum of squared errors (SSE), mean of squared errors (MSE) and Akaike's information criterion (AIC) shows that the Beta Growth function is the best function to model the ryegrass foliar growth.","PeriodicalId":117786,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 4th International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129168195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tortuosity as a metric for evaluating branch motion paths under dynamic loading","authors":"M. D. Jones, J. Long","doi":"10.1109/PMA.2012.6524830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PMA.2012.6524830","url":null,"abstract":"We describe objective comparison of tree branch motion paths using tortuosity. Tortuosity is a measure of the bendiness or curviness of a path. Tree branch motion paths are piecewise linear curves created by collecting position information over time for fixed locations on a tree branch. Objective methods for comparing branch motion paths may improve computer simulations of tree motion for image synthesis by giving researchers another tool for evaluating and improving simulation methods. Three tortuosity metrics are computed and compared for 22 motion paths collected from a maple sapling in a laboratory environment. Appropriate metrics for tortuosity of tree branch motion paths must account for short chord lengths of those paths, admit analysis of space curves and match intuitive notions of bendiness. Tortuosity itself is a subjective measure. We present several images of branch motion paths along with their tortuosity values. Based on these results, average curvature is the most appropriate metric for characterizing tortuosity of tree branch motion paths because average curvature is not sensitive to chord length, is defined in 3D and is well correlated with our intuitive notion of tortuosity.","PeriodicalId":117786,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 4th International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130217635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The stat of the art of terrestrial eco-hydrological mechanisms and numerical simulation","authors":"Xiaolei Cao, Ziru Wang, Zuhao Zhou","doi":"10.1109/PMA.2012.6524816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PMA.2012.6524816","url":null,"abstract":"Eco-hydrology is a science related to the overlapping parts of ecology and hydrology, studying the relationship between vegetation and water cycle in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Climate change has significant effects on carbon and water cycles in terrestrial ecosystem, which have received extensive attentions in recent years. This paper provides a detailed analysis to the major parts of carbon and water cycles, and the relationship between these processes and environmental elements under climate change circumstances. This paper also summarized the classification and characteristics of eco-hydrological simulation models. Eco-hydrological simulation is an important approach to study the interaction between ecological and hydrological processes. The interaction mechanism and coupling of vegetation and hydrology at different scales is still a challenge in eco-hydrological research. Besides, researches on the response of eco-hydrological processes to climate change and human activities, and their feedback effects on climate are the most vigorous in this field.","PeriodicalId":117786,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 4th International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications","volume":"226 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127214133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AMAPstudio: A software suite for plants architecture modelling","authors":"Sébastien Griffon","doi":"10.1109/PMA.2012.6524825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PMA.2012.6524825","url":null,"abstract":"AMAPstudio is a user-friendly software suite designed for botanists and agronomists to edit, visualize, explore and simulate multi-scale plant architecture. It contains interactive tools to handle the topology (e.g. organs addition or deletion), the geometry (e.g. 3D selection, edition, rotation) and the dynamics (i.e. time line, scenarios) of plants at the individual or scene scale. AMAPstudio is based on the Multi-scale Tree Graph (MTG) data structure, which is commonly used to represent plant topology. Users can explore this data structure to test or to improve hypotheses on plant development. Specific data can be extracted with combinations of criteria and can be visualized in tables and graphs. Simple analysis functions can be launched or data can be exported to external tools, e.g. R, or any other statistical computing environment, for more specific analyses. AMAPstudio is also a framework in which modellers can integrate their own plant simulation models. Different scenarios can be computed for a growth model by interactively modifying model parameters or plant structure (e.g. by pruning) at particular time steps.","PeriodicalId":117786,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 4th International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126973149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computational experiments of light distribution and photosynthesis in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) canopy","authors":"Tingting Qian, Shenglian Lu, Chunjiang Zhao, Xinyu Guo, Weiliang Wen","doi":"10.1109/PMA.2012.6524864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PMA.2012.6524864","url":null,"abstract":"Light distribution in cucumber canopy affects leaf photosynthesis directly. Scientific computing of light distribution and accurate modeling of canopy photosynthesis is beneficial to improve understanding of the canopy structure and provide a quantitative decision basis for optimal planting spacing design. In this paper, three 3D cucumber canopy models were reconstructed in different planting spacing using measured data. A canopy light distribution calculation model and photosynthesis model were used to calculate light interception and photosynthetic production. Experimental results demonstrated that based on the 3D cucumber canopy models and combining light distribution model, the light distribution in different planting spacing canopy can be simulated accurately. Leaf photosynthesis calculation based on the result of light distribution modeling provides an efficient approach to investigate the physiology of cucumber, and a favorable support for the decisions for optimal planting spacing design.","PeriodicalId":117786,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 4th International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121680978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hong Guo, Yuan-chang Lu, Jun Diao, V. Letort, P. de Reffye
{"title":"Source-sink relationships vary with age in Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.): Analysis using the GreenLab model","authors":"Hong Guo, Yuan-chang Lu, Jun Diao, V. Letort, P. de Reffye","doi":"10.1109/PMA.2012.6524826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PMA.2012.6524826","url":null,"abstract":"Tree growth and development rely on the underlying dynamics of their source-sink balance. Given the difficulty of collecting experimental data on adult trees, models can be used as tools to disentangle the complex processes that drive biomass production and allocation. This paper investigates the variations of parameters with age driving the source-sink balance of individual trees through the functional-structural plant model GreenLab. Six Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.) trees were destructively sampled and were divided into three groups based on ages: 5-year old, 10-year old and 18-year old. Firstly, the effects of age on organ dimensions and on organ relative mass were analyzed based on direct experimental measurement. Secondly, the hidden parameters of the GreenLab model were estimated using the data of total tree biomass for needle and wood compartment independently and then for the six trees in parallel. The statistical tests showed that there were significant differences between the tip attributes on first-, second-, and third-order branches of the three age stages for internode diameter, internode sink and needle sink. Preliminary fitting results showed that the sink of layers and the parameter of biomass production efficiency 1/r decrease with age.","PeriodicalId":117786,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 4th International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications","volume":" 43","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113951707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Functional structural plant modelling: Applications beyond the plant","authors":"J. Hanan","doi":"10.1109/PMA.2012.6524803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PMA.2012.6524803","url":null,"abstract":"Functional structural models are useful as a thinking tool for plant science research where spatial elements play an important role, both internally and in the local environment. But the resulting models of plant canopy also provide a platform for modelling interaction with other entities in the environment. Systems for simulating insect-plant interactions and spray-canopy interactions are described, as examples.","PeriodicalId":117786,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE 4th International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116836722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}