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CRootBox: A functional-structural root model
Functional-structural plant (FSP) root models are increasingly used to investigate root-soil interactions. Schnepf et al. present CRootBox, a C++ based modelling framework for root...
Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World by Alice Roberts
List books can be good, but there's a knack to them. Nick Lane's Life Ascending works because the various features to life he lists...
3D-modelling of buttress region and roots gives allometric carbon formulae
The largest uncertainty in humans' contribution to climate change from land use is the fate of carbon that was belowground in pre-modified forests. In...
DigR: a generic model and simulator of 3D root-system architecture
Several models of root system architecture exist in the literature but few of them are targeted at the organ level in response to environmental...
Maize nutrient uptake and photosynthesis in intercropping
Maize and wheat are globally important food crops. The two species can be grown as an intercrop, with substantial land sparing in the order...
Do Oaks Encourage the Baby-Eating Chipmunks of China?
You might expect acorn-eating chipmunks to be the enemies of oaks. New research out of Henan and Jiangxi suggests that the chipmunks aid oaks because acorns are not the only babies that the chipmunks eat.
