Modelling tree growth taking into account carbon source and sink limitations

• Published in: bioRxiv
• Main Authors: Hayat, Amaury, Hacket-Pain, Andrew J, Pretzsch, Hans, Tim Tito Rademacher, Friend, Andrew D
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 13.07.2016; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Edition: 1.1
• Subjects: Carbon dioxide; Carbon sources; Environmental changes; Forests; Growth rate; Mathematical models; Meristems; Photosynthesis; Plant Biology

Increasing CO2 concentrations are strongly controlled by the behaviour of undisturbed forests, which are believed to be a major current sink of atmospheric CO2. There are many models which predict forest responses to environmental changes but they are almost exclusively carbon source (i.e. photosynt...