Deciphering soil plant relations with a detailed numerical model

Abstract

⇨ to develop a biophysically-based model, where our current knowledge on plant functioning is included ⇨ to use this biophysical model to investigate the impact of coupled processes on plant water relations (process understanding) ⇨ to use this biophysical model to test current simplified sink term hypotheses and update or confirm current sink term functions ⇨ to develop upscaling procedures to improve hydrological, land surface and crop models