Model s serve a variety of functions for ecologists, but all ecological models are abstract representations of biological systems expressed in either mathematical or symbolic terms. Models may serve as hypotheses to be tested, or as tools to predict the behavior of an ecosystem, or one of its subsystems. In a concise review, Moorehead et al. (1996) distinguished three groups of decomposition models.
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(2008). Models that Describe Litter Decomposition. In: Plant Litter. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74923-3_10
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