A tool to model 3D coarse-root development with annual resolution

Plant and Soil

Volumn 346, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-96

  Wagner, Bettina ^a,b   Santini, Silvia ^b   Ingensand, Hilmar ^b   Gärtner, Holger ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allocation; Laser scanning; Root growth; Tree rings; Volume

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CHRONOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROWTH; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; RESOLUTION; ROOT; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; SLOPE STABILITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TREE RING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLUME;

EID: 80051666240     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0797-8     Document Type: Article

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