“Virtual grassland”: an OpenAlea package to deal with herbaceous plant architecture and grassland community dynamics

  • Gaëtan Louarn INRA
  • Abraham Escobar-Guttierrez
  • Didier Combes
Keywords: Architecture, grass, legume, community, dynamics

Abstract

The “Virtual grassland” OpenAlea package was developed to provide herbaceous plant models and coupling methods with soil and light transfer modules.  It aims at simulating the effects of competition and facilitation interactions at the population and community levels in grasslands.
Published
2013-06-04
Section
4B Growth and development of plant communities