Vegetation Function Network supported by Australian Research Council and Landcare Research NZ
6. Third-generation models of carbon assimilation and water expenditure
The first meeting of this working group was held during the week of 31 October 2005

PARTICIPANTS
Ray Leuning - CSIRO, models for soil-plant-atmosphere continuum
Graham Farquhar - ANU, photosynthesis and isotopes
Mike Battaglia - CSIRO Forestry, photosynthesis models
David Whitehead - Landcare Research NZ, vegetation-atmosphere interactions
Mark Adams - UNSW, nutrient cycling and forest production
Russell Monson - U Colorado, carbon and nitrogen cycles
Will Cornwell - Stanford now Vrije U Amsterdam, comparative ecophysiology
Belinda Medlyn - UNSW, forest ecophysiology
Ian Wright, Mark Westoby and Daniel Falster- Macquarie, comparative plant ecology

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The meeting on 1-4 November 2005 group set into progress the following activities or ideas:

1. Explicit inclusion of sapwood cross-sectional area and wood characteristics into certain stand-level productivity and growth models.
2. An evolutionary-optimization model for the coordination of sapwood cross-section with leaf area
3. Introducing sapwood area into the state-of-the-art time-dynamic carbon-water model from Tuzet et al 2003
4. Possibly a concept review about bridging between physiology and evolution

Discussions continued through the first half of 2006 about how to configure future meetings. It has been decided to merge the activity about modeling optimal sapwood cross-section in relation to leaf area into working group working group 4.

last updated September 2006