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( Theoretical production ecology)
Theoretical production ecology tries to quantatively study the growth of crops. The plant is treated as a kind of biological factory, which processes light, carbon dioxide, water and nutrients into harvestable parts. Main parameters kept into consideration are temperature, sunlight, standing crop biomass, plant production distribution, nutrient and water supply. Modelling is essential in theoretical production ecology. Unit of modelling usually is the crop, the assembly of plants per standard surface unit. Analysis results for an individual plant are generalised to the standard surface, e.g. the Leaf Area Index is the generalised surface of all crop leaves per surface unit. The usual system of describing plant production divides the plant production process into at least five separate processes, which are influenced by several external parameters. Two cycles of biochemical reactions constitute the basis of plant production, the light reaction and the dark reaction.
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