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Modeling of Growth and Production

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Physiological Plant Ecology IV

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology ((920,volume 12 / D))

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Building models is one way of integrating knowledge. It has as important features that it

  • helps to define and categorize the state of knowledge of the subject;

  • helps to locate gaps in knowledge and to make hypotheses explicit, and thus helps to set priorities for research;

  • provides a tool to make the integrated information operational;

  • provides an effective link between scientists from adjacent disciplines, between researchers studying different levels of biological organization, and between fu3ndamental and applied scientists.

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  3. Department of Environmental Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Box 475, Canberra City, 2601, Australia

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  4. Institut für Botanik und Mikrobiologie der Technischen Universität München, Arcisstraße 21, 8000, München 2, Germany

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Penning De Vries, F.W.T. (1983). Modeling of Growth and Production. In: Lange, O.L., Nobel, P.S., Osmond, C.B., Ziegler, H. (eds) Physiological Plant Ecology IV. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 12 / D. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68156-1_5

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