Quantification of the mutual relationships between forest growth and forest water use: determining factors, feedbacks and strategies

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Introduction

Part I: modelling carbon and water exchange between coniferous forests and the atmosphere

2.1 Water and carbon fluxes abouve European coniferous modelled with artificial neural networks

2.2 Analysing latent heat fluxes of coniferous forests with fuzzy logic

3. Simulating daily and half-hourly fluxes of forest carbon and water vapour exchange with a simple model of light and water use

4.1 Modelling daily gas exchange of a Douglas-Fir forest: comparison of three stomatal conductance models with and without a soil water stress function

4.2 Simulation of carbon and water budgets of a Douglas-Fire forest

5. Comparison of different modeling strategies for simulating gas exchange of a Douglas-Fir forest

Part II: Application of a spatially explicit model and the optimisation strategy to gain insight in eco-hydrological feedbacks

6. Tree-grass competition in space and time: insights from a simple cellular automata model based on hydrological dynamics

7. Towards understanding tree root profiles: simulating hydrologically optimal strategies for root districution

8. Concluding remarks

9. Summary

10. Samenvatting

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