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Modelling plant growth and architecture requires two consecutive and complementary approaches. The first is a qualitative botanical analysis, in which the development sequence of a tree is studied by the identification of various levels of organisation and of homogeneous subunits. All of these — architectural unit, axis, growth unit — follow particular growth processes which can be described by using the second approach, the quantitative analysis. Modelling of the functioning of meristems based upon stochastic processes has been carried out since 1980, in combination with a large amount of experimental work on temperate and tropical plants. Calculations involved in tree simulations from field data are based upon the probabilistic Monte Carlo method for the topological part and on analytical geometry for the morphological part. Computer graphics methods are then used to visualise the computed plant. Several sectors in agroforestry are concerned with application of such plant architecture modelling: tree growth and yield, radiative transfers, timber quality and mechanics, simulation of competition, interaction between plant morphology and physiology.
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De Reffye, P., Houllier, F., Blaise, F., Barthelemy, D., Dauzat, J., Auclair, D. (1995). A model simulating above- and below-ground tree architecture with agroforestry applications. In: Sinclair, F.L. (eds) Agroforestry: Science, Policy and Practice. Forestry Sciences, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0681-0_9
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