Applying GreenLab Model to Adult Chinese Pine Trees with Topology Simplification

TL;DR

This study applies the GreenLab functional structural model to adult Chinese pine trees, validating key hypotheses and introducing a simplified pattern for efficient data collection and accurate modeling.

Contribution

The paper demonstrates the successful application of GreenLab to adult Chinese pines and introduces a simplified tree description pattern to improve modeling efficiency.

Findings

Simplified pattern fits adult trees well

Validated GreenLab hypotheses for Chinese pines

Reduced computational time with simplified pattern

Abstract

This paper applied the functional structural model GreenLab to adult Chinese pine trees (pinus tabulaeformis Carr.). Basic hypotheses of the model were validated such as constant allometry rules, relative sink relationships and topology simplification. To overcome the limitations raised by the complexity of tree structure for collecting experimental data, a simplified pattern of tree description was introduced and compared with the complete pattern for the computational time and the parameter accuracy. The results showed that this simplified pattern was well adapted to fit adult trees with GreenLab.