A Qualitative Model of Plant Growth Based on Exploitation of Resources
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Understanding how plants extract resources and use them to support growth has important implications for understanding subsequent processes, including population dynamics of plants, competition for limiting resources by different species, and population dynamics of herbivores and predators. Here, we develop and discuss a qualitative model of plant growth based on exploitation of resources. We also discuss some further model improvements that should allow the model to be expanded to investigate how food chains and food webs are ultimately limited by resource supply.
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