GreenLab Course
Principles
GreenLab positioning
The GreenLab model approach seeks to benefit from the advantages of both process-based and structural models.
PbM, FSPM and GreenLab
GreenLab model positioning
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In PBM and GreenLab, biomass production is shared from a common pool, while in FSPM,
biomass is locally distributed, using the plant structure as a transportation system.
In structural models and GreenLab, organs are distributed according to temporal compartments and structural typology: the physiological age.
However their precise topological and geometric positions are not required in the GreenLab model.
Organ Source and Sink policy in PBM, GreenLab and FSPM (Drawing P. de Reffye, CIRAD)
- Left: the organ compartments are usually limited to the organ types in PBM.
Middle: Organs are organized in physiological and chronological ages in GreenLab, implicitly related to architectural concepts.
Right: while in FSPM, each organ is individualized, both for source (leaves) and sinks.
Definition