I. Colin Prentice

TL;DR: A model to predict global patterns in vegetation physiognomy was developed from physiological considera- tions influencing the distributions of different functional types of plant in a given environment, and selected the potentially dominant types from among them as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Integrated Biosphere Simulator (IBIS) as mentioned in this paper is a terrestrial biosphere model that integrates a wide range of biophysical, physiological, and ecological processes in a single, physically consistent modeling framework.

TL;DR: In this article, a coupled carbon and water flux model is used to calculate, for each PFT, the leaf area index (LAI) that maximizes net primary production (NPP), subject to the constraint that NPP must be sufficient to maintain this LAI.

TL;DR: Two models representing contrasting degrees of abstraction of the processes governing dynamics in real vegetation are compared, suggesting that an explicit individual-based approach to vegetation dynamics may be an advantage in modelling of ecosystem structure and function at the resolution required for regional- to continental-scale studies.

TL;DR: In this article, a method for the objective biomization of pollen samples based on fuzzy logic is described, where the pollen sample is assigned to the biome to which it has the highest affinity subject to a tie-breaking rule.