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Mathematical modeling of nitrous oxide emissions from an agricultural field during spring thaw
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Confidence in regional estimates of N2O emissions used in national greenhouse gas inventories could be improved by using mathematical models of the biological and physical processes by which these emissions are known to be controlled. However these models must first be rigorously tested against...
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Maximizing gain at restricted group coancestry in selection from populations with a hiearchical structure
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A general model was derived to find a set of optimal family contributions within a single cycle of selection from populations with a strictly hierarchical structure. The model maximized genetic gain at restricted selection proportion and group coancestry, or minimized group coancestry at...
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Methane efflux form boreal wetlands: theory and testing of the ecosystem model ecosys with chamber and tower flux measurements
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A robust model of CH4 emission from terrestrial ecosystems should be capable of simulating the temporal and spatial variability that characterizes field measurements. Such a model should couple a biologically based treatment of microbial CH4 transformations with a physically based treatment of...
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2010
Abstract: Accurate description of spatial distribution of species is essential for correctly modeling macroecological patterns and thus to infer mechanisms of species coexistence. The Poisson and negative binomial distribution (NBD) are most widely used to respectively model random and aggregated...
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Modeling stomatal and nonstomatal effects of water deficits on CO2 fixation in a semiarid grassland
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The confidence with which we can model water deficit effects on grassland productivity is limited by uncertainty about the mechanisms, stomatal and nonstomatal, by which soil water deficits reduce CO2 uptake. We propose that these reductions can accurately be modeled from a combination of...
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Modeling the carbon balance of Amazonian rain forests: resolving ecological controls on net ecosystem productivity
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de Oliveira, R. C., Munger, J. W., Wofsy, S. C., Hutra, L. R., Grant, R. F., Saleska, S. R.
Abstract: There is still much uncertainty about ecological controls on the rate and direction of net CO(2) exchange by tropical rain forests, in spite of their importance to global C cycling. These controls are thought to arise from hydrologic and nutrient constraints to CO(2) fixation caused by...
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2010
Dimitrov, D. D., Lafleur, P. M., Grant, R. F., Humphreys, E.
Abstract: [1] The ecosys model was applied to examine the effects of peatland hydrology on soil respiration and ecosystem respiration at Mer Bleue peatland, Ontario, Canada. It was hypothesized that a decrease in near-surface microbial respiration in peat hummocks resulting from water table (WT)...
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Modeling the effects of hydrology on gross primary productivity and net ecosystem productivity at Mer Bleue bog
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Humphreys, E., Dimitrov, D. D., Grant, R. F., LaFleur, P. M.
Abstract: The ecosys model was applied to investigate the effects of water table and subsurface hydrology changes on carbon dioxide exchange at the ombrotrophic Mer Bleue peatland, Ontario, Canada. It was hypothesized that (1) water table drawdown would not affect vascular canopy water potential,...
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2012
Desai, A., Grant, R.F., Sulman, B.
Responses of wetland productivity to changes in water table depth (WTD) are controlled by complex interactions among several soil and plant processes, and hence are site-specific rather than general in nature. Hydrological controls on wetland productivity were studied by representing these...