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A study involving the growth of Australian Eucalypts under irrigation regimes with varying levels of salinity and nutrients was conducted in Loxton South Australia. The field experiment was conducted over a period of six years. The aim of the study was to determine the impact of salinity on the growth of eucalypts and to provide recommendations on the commercial suitability of growing eucalypts using saline drainage water. The data has both spatial and temporal aspects which are examined in this paper. Spatial modelling follows current methods for field trials while the temporal modelling involves smoothing splines. A joint mixed model is developed which uses a mixed model representation of the smoothing spline.
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Verbyla, A., Lorimer, M., Stevens, R. (2000). A spatio-temporal analysis of a field trial. In: Bethlehem, J.G., van der Heijden, P.G.M. (eds) COMPSTAT. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57678-2_15
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