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THE HELSINKI WORKSHOP ON FUNCTIONAL- STRUCTURAL TREE MODELS

December 12-13, 1996 , Saatytalo, Snellmanninkatu. 11, Helsinki Finland

Workshop Announcement and Invitation of Presentations

OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP

The objective of this workshop is to review current approaches and ongoing modelling work that allow the integration of morphology and metabolism in plant models. In accordance with this, the purpose of the meeting is also to boost Finnish functional-structural tree modelling.

VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS

The meeting program consists of invited lectures and voluntary contributions. There are still some space available for voluntary presentations and computer simulations (PC's Mac's and Sun Unix Workstations available, please contact organisers about your specific needs). If you would be interested in presenting your work in the workshop, please send a short abstract of your presentation at latest 4.10. 1996 to:

Risto Sievanen
The Finnish Forest Research Institute
P.O. Box 18, 01301 Vantaa
Finland
or preferably by email to: risto.sievanen@metla.fi

We shall inform you of the acceptance of your presentation at latest the 18th of October 1996.

Registration

We kindly ask you to inform us of your interest of participating to the meeting at latest the 1.11. 1996. However, due to the limited amount of space we have to limit the number of participants to about 50 people. The registration fee is 100 FIM which includes the abstracts of the presentations and refreshments.

PROGRAM

1. Distribution of growth in trees

J. H.M Thornley
Fundamentals of the substrate utilization model
D. Hilbert / E. Nikinmaa
Competition among growth units in Thornley transport model
H. Valentine
Height growth, site index, and carbon metabolism.
E. Haukioja
Modularity of trees
P. Hari
Using structural information for making tree growth models
A. Makela
The title will be specified later
C. Deleuze
A transport model for tree ring width

2. Models of tree architecture

C. Godin
Measuring and modelling tree architecture (AMAPmod software)
P. de Reffye
Simulation of tree growth and architecture (AMAPsim)
W. Kurth
Growth grammars simulating trees - an extension of L-systems incorporating local variables and sensitivity
S. Kellomaki
Light and structural development of Scots pine crown

3. Voluntary papers

T. Frueh
Simulation of Water Flow in the Branched Tree Architecture
T. Honkanen
Modularity of pine as a framework for outcome of needle damage treatments
J. Perttunen
Studying the effect of sapwood formation on tree growth using model LIGNUM

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