Sentences with phrase «simulation modeling plant»

DoN is a Nature game and an ecological simulation modeling plant and animal life.

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Additional keywords: crop improvement, crop modelling, G × E, genotype by environment interaction, plant breeding, trait simulation.

Moving forward, Smith's group seeks to further validate molecular dynamics simulations as a predictive tool by modeling a genetically modified form of switchgrass, another plant targeted for cellulosic ethanol.

Those simulations, which included nitrogen limitations in northern hemisphere soils and phosphorus limitations in the tropics, predicted that land plants will absorb 23 % less carbon than is projected by other models.

Using a digital terrain model of the landscape and a hydrological model simulation the scientists found that planting trees on the floodplain and increasing the number of logjams, across 10 - 15 per cent of the total river length could reduce the peak height of a potential flood in the town by 6 per cent once the trees had grown for 25 years.

Future simulation models need to incorporate ecological processes like competition that can shape which pollinators interact with which plants.»

Using a simulation model, the authors showed that these complex interactions between plants mediated by soil biota equalise growth differences between plant species, thus promoting their long - term coexistence.

Before being used to project future vegetation trends, the simulation model FORENA was verified by its ability to reproduce long, temporal sequences of plant community change recorded by fossil pollen and by its ability to reproduce today's vegetation.

Several recent studies have used simulation models to quantify the potential effects of recent environmental regulations on power plants, including the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), one of the US Environmental Protection Agency's most expensive regulations.

In a new paper, we explored the importance of one new feature that adds complexity to state - of - the - art climate models: simulation of year - to - year variations in the emergence and loss of leaves by trees and other plants.

RPC developed simulation models to determine the economic, demographic and fiscal impact of proposals to convert a power plant to burn synthetic fuel in place of burning residual fuel oil in Manatee County, Florida.