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5. Linking species-level scale with whole-vegetation scale
| The first meeting of this working group was held during the week of 17 October 2005 | PARTICIPANTS Jason Beringer - Monash, land-atmosphere interactions Derek Eamus - UTS, transpiration by trees Ross McMurtrie - UNSW David Whitehead - Landcare Research NZ, vegetation-atmosphere interactions Peter Reich - Minnesota, plant physiological ecology Alex Held - CSIRO, COSSA/OEC Michael Tausz - U Melbourne Erik Veneklaas - U Western Australia David Ellsworth - U Western Sydney, ecosphysiology Kristine Crous - U Michigan, ecophysiology Ian Wright and Mark Westoby - Macquarie, comparative plant ecology |
The first meeting of this working group chose the following activities to get under way:
1. Cross-relating eddy-flux results to species-specific traits; the first step is to gather together eddy-flux sites worldwide that actually have useable data.
2. Fitting the MAESTRA or NZ models to approximately eight sites, with a view to decomposing the light-use-efficiency and water-use-efficiency components of ecosystem production
3. Possibly an extended multi-author review of the relations between species-level processes and ecosystem-level processes.
Further meetings may be organized when significant progress has been made on one or more of these activities.
Last updated Sept 2006.
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