Modeling soil processes: Review, key challenges, and new perspectives

H Vereecken, A Schnepf, JW Hopmans… - Vadose zone …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services
presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil …

Model averaging in ecology: A review of Bayesian, information‐theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference

CF Dormann, JM Calabrese… - Ecological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In ecology, the true causal structure for a given problem is often not known, and several
plausible models and thus model predictions exist. It has been claimed that using weighted …

Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities

PC Stoy, TS El-Madany, JB Fisher, P Gentine… - …, 2019 - bg.copernicus.org
Evaporation (E) and transpiration (T) respond differently to ongoing changes in climate,
atmospheric composition, and land use. It is difficult to partition ecosystem-scale …

Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the N orth A merican C arbon P rogram S ite S ynthesis

AD Richardson, RS Anderson, MA Arain… - Global Change …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Phenology, by controlling the seasonal activity of vegetation on the land surface, plays a
fundamental role in regulating photosynthesis and other ecosystem processes, as well as …

A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 2000–2020

S He, Y Zhang, N Ma, J Tian, D Kong… - Earth System Science …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate high-resolution actual evapotranspiration (ET) and gross primary production (GPP)
information is essential for understanding the large-scale water and carbon dynamics …

Estimation of vegetation photosynthetic capacity from space‐based measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence for terrestrial biosphere models

Y Zhang, L Guanter, JA Berry, J Joiner… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Photosynthesis simulations by terrestrial biosphere models are usually based on the
Farquhar's model, in which the maximum rate of carboxylation (Vcmax) is a key control …

Comprehensive comparison of gap-filling techniques for eddy covariance net carbon fluxes

AM Moffat, D Papale, M Reichstein, DY Hollinger… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2007 - Elsevier
We review 15 techniques for estimating missing values of net ecosystem CO2 exchange
(NEE) in eddy covariance time series and evaluate their performance for different artificial …

Are trees able to grow in periods of stem shrinkage?

R Zweifel, M Haeni, N Buchmann, W Eugster - New Phytologist, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Separating continuously measured stem radius (SR) fluctuations into growth‐induced
irreversible stem expansion (GRO) and tree water deficit‐induced reversible stem shrinkage …

Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review

R Seidl, PM Fernandes, TF Fonseca, F Gillet… - Ecological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Natural disturbances play a key role in ecosystem dynamics and are important factors for
sustainable forest ecosystem management. Quantitative models are frequently employed to …

Root structural and functional dynamics in terrestrial biosphere models–evaluation and recommendations

JM Warren, PJ Hanson, CM Iversen, J Kumar… - New …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
There is wide breadth of root function within ecosystems that should be considered when
modeling the terrestrial biosphere. Root structure and function are closely associated with …