Abstract
A quantitative model of water movement through any part of the soil, plant, or Atmosphere requires a number of physical assumptions. Sometimes this is in the interest of simplicity and economy, and other times it is required because experimental data or other fundamental theoretical information are not available. A further set of assumptions is required to interface each component representation with the proper interaction and feedback into an overall model of the whole process. With the introduction of a large number of complex models in recent years, to make a proper selection it is necessary for the modeler of the soil-plant-Atmosphere continuum (SPAC) to examine in more detail the kind of approaches being taken, as well as the degree of success for each model.
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Jury, W.A. (1979). Water Transport Through Soil, Plant, and Atmosphere. In: Hall, A.E., Cannell, G.H., Lawton, H.W. (eds) Agriculture in Semi-Arid Environments. Ecological Studies, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67328-3_7
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