Understanding the impact of root morphology on overturning mechanisms: A modelling approach

Annals of Botany

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1267-1280

  Fourcaud, Thierry ^a,b   Ji, Jin Nan ^c   Zhang, Zhi Qiang ^c   Stokes, Alexia ^a,b  

^a UMR AMAP   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acclimative growth; Anchorage; Biomechanics; Root architecture; Root eccentricity; Rotation axis; Secondary growth; Tree uprooting; Von Mises stresses

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; BIOMECHANICS; ECCENTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MODELING; MORPHOLOGY; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; ROOT SYSTEM; ROOTING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SOIL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL;

EID: 48249090779     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm245     Document Type: Article

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