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Biodiversity
Central-European Plants
Modeling Biodiversity
Future Biodiversity Models
Plant Trait Databases
Universal Scaling Laws
Project Aim & Objectives
Model Design
Model Parametrization
Test Experiments
Field Experiments
Resources

WWW-Links:



Ascape

http://ascape.sourceforge.net/



ATLSS Home Page

http://atlss.org/



BIOLFLOR

BIOLFLOR - Eine Datenbank mit biologisch-ökologischen Merkmalen zur Flora von Deutschland.
http://www.biolflor.de



CANOAK

Dennis Baldocchi and colleagues: Berkeley Biometeorology Lab Web site
Education -> Education Tools -> C Code CANOAK Version 2
http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/BiometWeb/canoak_V2.c



CLOPLA

Klimešová J & Klimeš L(2005):
CLO-PLA - a database of clonal growth in plants.
(CLOPLA 3, version updated 20. 10. 2005)
http://clopla.butbn.cas.cz/



CoupModel

Jansson P-E & Karlberg L: Coupled heat and mass transfer model for soil-plant-atmosphere system (= CoupModel)
Online at:
http://www.lwr.kth.se/vara%20datorprogram/CoupModel/

Official documentation at:
http://www.lwr.kth.se/vara%20datorprogram/CoupModel/NetHelp/default.htm



DIPimage

http://www.diplib.org/



Ecological Flora of the British Isles

Fitter AH & Peat HJ (1994)
The Ecological Flora Database.
J. Ecol. 82
pp. 415-425.
http://www.ecoflora.co.uk/



Eclipse.org home

http://www.eclipse.org/



History of biology, Wikpedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_biology
(last accessed December 2009)



History of physics, Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_physics
(last accessed Decmber 2009)



ICOM

International Council of Museums
http://icom.museum/
(last accessed December 2009)



IGBP

http://www.igbp.net/



IUCN

The International Union for Conservation of Nature
http://www.iucn.org



IUCN Red List

http://www.iucnredlist.org
(last accessed November 2009)



L-Studio

http://algorithmicbotany.org/



MASON

http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/mason/



MATLAB

http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/



MIT System Dynamics Group

http://sysdyn.clexchange.org/sd-group/



NetLogo Home Page

http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/



PalDat

Palynological Database.
An online publication of the Society for the Promotion of Palynological Research in Austria
http://www.paldat.org/



Prasad AM & Iverson LR (1999-2009):

A Climate Change Atlas for 80 Forest Tree Species of the Eastern United States [database].
Northeastern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Delaware, Ohio, USA
http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/delaware/atlas/index.html
(last accessed Dec. 2009)



Repast

http://repast.sourceforge.net/



Scientific Facts on Biodiversity (2009):

http://www.greenfacts.org/en/biodiversity/index.htm#il1



Seed Information Datbase

Liu K, Eastwood RJ, Flynn S, Turner RM & Stuppy WH (2008):
Seed Information Database (release 7.1, May 2008)
http://www.kew.org/data/sid



SORTIE-ND Home Page

http://www.sortie-nd.org/index.html
(last accessed December 2009)



Stefanssion B (1999):

SwarmFest Tutorial 99
http://www.swarm.org/swarmfest99-tutorial/SectionTwo-99/index.htm



STELLA, isee Systems

http://www.iseesystems.com/softwares/education/stellasoftware.aspx



SWARM Development Group Wiki

http://www.swarm.org/index.php/Main_Page



System Dynamics Society

http://www.systemdynamics.org/

Introduction to System Dynamics.
http://www.systemdynamics.org/DL-IntroSysDyn/



The LEDA Traitbase

http://www.leda-traitbase.org/LEDAportal/



TRY

http://www.try-db.org



Village Ecodynamics Project

http://village.anth.wsu.edu/



WIMOVAC:

Windows Intuitive Model Of Vegetation response to Atmospheric & Climate change (WIMOVAC)
Online at:
http://www2.essex.ac.uk/wimovac/model.htm



WIMOVAC Leaf Gas Exchange Module:

http://www2.essex.ac.uk/wimovac/leafgas.htm
(WIMOVAC -> WIMOVAC Features -> WIMOVAC Algorithms -> Laef Gas Exchange Module)



Books:



Ahuja LR et al. (2008):

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Advances in Agricultural Systems Modeling Ser. 1.
Madison, WI, USA



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Cambridge University Press
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Buhler DD (1999):

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Ph.D. Thesis
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Reaktionen von drei Süßgrasarten mit unterschiedlichen Nährstoffansprüchen auf erhöhte NH3-Konzentrationen und NH4+-Gaben in Rein- und in Mischkultur.
Dissertation, Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Justus Liebig Universität Gießen
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Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe.
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Addison-Wesley
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The ecology of seeds.
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Gamma E et al. (1995):

Entwurfsmuster: Elemente wiederverwendbarer objektoreintierter Software.
Addison-Wesley
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Gibson DJ (2009):

Grasses and grassland ecology.
Oxford University Press
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Gilbert N & Troitzsch KG (2005):

Simulation for the social scientist.
Second edition
Open University Press
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Goudriaan J (1977):

Crop micrometeorology: A simulation study.
Simulation Monographs
Pudoc, Wageningen



Grime JP, Hodgson JG & Hunt R (1996):

Comparative plant ecology: a functional approach to common British species.
Chapman & Hall
pp. 742
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Grime JP (2002):

Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties.
2nd Edition
John Wiley and Sons
pp. 456
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Grimm V & Railsback SF (2005):

Individual-Based Modeling and Ecology.
Princeton Series in Theretical and Computational Biology
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Harder LD, Charles S & Barrett H (2006):

Ecology and evolution of flowers.
Oxford biology readers
Oxford University Press
pp. 370
Online at:
http://books.google.de/books?id=P9kpuHMd4esC&source=gbs_navlinks_s



Hendry GAF & Grime JP (1993):

Methods in Comparative Plant Ecology: A Laboratory Manual.
Springer, Berlin
pp. 252
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http://books.google.de/books?id=lpE8cUqrVWIC&dq=Methods+in+Comparative+Plant+Ecology&source=gbs_navlinks_s



Hodgson JG et al. (1995):

The Electronic Comparative Plant Ecology.
Kluwer Academic Publishers
pp. 24



Holland JH (1995):

Hidden Order: How adaptation builds complexity.
Basic Books, Perseus Books Group
New York



Jedicke E (1997):

Die Roten Listen. Gefährdete Pflanzen, Tiere und Biotope in Bund und Ländern.
Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart
pp. 581



Jongman RH, ter Braak CJ & van Tongeren OFR(1995):

Data analysis in community and landscape ecology.
Second edition
Cambridge University Press
pp. 299
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http://books.google.de/books?id=-2moMncytSIC&dq=Numerical+Ecology+Legendre&source=gbs_navlinks_s



Jorgensen SE & Müller F (2000):

Handbook of ecosystem theories and management.
CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton
Preview online at:
http://books.google.de/books?id=D79Hay1AnbIC&dq=Jorgensen+Handbook+of+ecosystem+theories&source=gbs_navlinks_s



Kerievsky J (2005):

Refactoring to Patterns.
Addison-Wesley
Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA
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http://books.google.de/books?id=h2sdNbKW65gC&dq=Kerievsky+Refactoring+to+Patterns&source=gbs_navlinks_s



Klotz S, Kühn I & Durka W (2003):

BIOLFLOR - Eine Datenbank mit biologisch-ökologischen Merkmalen zur Flora von Deutschland.
Landwirtschaftsverlag
pp. 337
Online at:
http://www.biolflor.de



Kolek J & Kozinka V (1992):

Physiology of the plant root system.
Band 46 von Developments in plant and soil sciences
Springer Verlag
Berlin, Heidelberg, New York
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Wurzelatlas mitteleuropäischer Ackerunkräuter und Kulturpflanzen.
DLG Verlag
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Wurzelatlas mitteleuropäischer Grünlandpflanzen: Monocotyledoneae.
Band 1 von Wurzelatlas mitteleuropäischer Grünlandpflanzen.
Gustav Fischer Verlag
pp. 516



Kutschera L & Lichtenberger E (1992):

Wurzelatlas mitteleuropäischer Grünlandpflanzen: Pteridophyta und Dicotyledoneae Magnoliopsida.
Band 2 von Wurzelatlas mitteleuropäischer Grünlandpflanzen.
Gustav Fischer Verlag
pp. 261



Lambers H & Ribas-Carbó M (2005):

Plant respiration: from cell to ecosystem.
Volume 18, Advances in photosynthesis and respiration
Springer Verlag
Berlin, Heidelberg, New York
pp. 250
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http://books.google.de/books?id=TE9_bfFw-D8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Plant+Respiration&hl=de&ei=8K3ATKD1NNKI4gbLgoibDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false



Lambers H, Stuart Chapin (III) F & Pons TL (2008):

Plant physiological ecology.
Srpringer Verlag, Berlin
pp. 604
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Larcher W (2003):

Phyiological Plant Ecology: Ecophysiology and stress physiology of functional groups.
Springer Verlag
Berlin, Heidelberg, New York
Online at:
http://books.google.de/books?id=BgtzD4frr98C&dq=Larcher+Ecophysiology&source=gbs_navlinks_s



Lea PJ & Morot-Gaudry JF (2001):

Plant nitrogen.
Springer Verlag
Berlin, Heidelberg, New York
pp. 407



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Numerical Ecology.
Second edition
Developments in environmental modelling, Volume 20
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Lehsten V (2005):

Functional analysis and modelling of vegetation: plant functional types in a mesocosmos experiment and a mechanistic model.
Ph. D. Thesis, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Online at:
http://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/volltexte/2005/163/



Leps J & Smilauer P (2003):

Multivariate analysis of ecological data using CANOCO.
Cambridge University Press, 2003
pp. 269
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http://books.google.de/books?id=DYfseIcJBc8C&dq=Numerical+Ecology+Legendre&source=gbs_navlinks_s



Loevejoy TE & Hannah L. (2005):

Climate change and biodiversity.
Yale University Press
New Haven & London
Online at:
http://books.google.de/books?id=T0n45hxqy_gC&dq=Cimate+change+and+biodiversity&source=gbs_navlinks_s



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The Limits to growth: a report for the Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind.
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Community Ecology: An Experimentalists Description.
Blackwell Science, Inc.
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Naeem S et al. ( 2009):

Naeem S, Bunker DE, Hector A, Loreau M & Perrings C:
Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing:
An Ecological and Economic Perspective.
Oxford Biology
Oxford University Press
pp. 384
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Noodén LD (2004):

Plant cell death processes.
Academic Press
pp. 392
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Plant Allometry: The Scaling of Form and Process.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
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Academic Press
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Ohgushi T, Craig TP & Price PW (2007):

Ecological Communities: Plant Mediation in Indirect Interaction Webs
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
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Ecological networks: linking structure to dynamics in food webs.
Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings
Oxford University Press, New Yourk, USA
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The ecological implications of body size.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants.
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Rote Liste der gefhrdeten Biotoptypen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)
Institut für Biotopschutz und Landschaftsökologie, Bonn - Bad Godesberg
KILDA-Verlag, Gevern
pp. 184



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Seed dispersal and biological invasion: A mathematical analysis.
PhD thesis
University of Utah



Schulze ED & Mooney HA (1993):

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function.
Ecological Studies 99.
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Cause and Correlation in Biology: A User's Guide to Path Analysis, Structural Equations and Causal Inference.
Cambridge University Press
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Springer Verlag
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Teh C (2006):

Introduction to mathematical modeling of crop growth.
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http://www.archive.org/details/lebensgeschichte11kirc



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Flora von Deutschland, Band 3
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Whitehead DC (2001):

Nutrient elements in grassland: Soil - plant - animal relationships.
CABI Publishing
pp. 369



Book Chapters:



Arthur WB et al. (1997):

Asset pricing under endogenous expectations in an artificial stock market.
In: Arthur WB, Durlauf S & Lane D:
The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II.
Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA
pp. 15-44



Ball JT, Woodrow IE & Berry JA (1987):

A model predicting stomatal conductance and its contribution tothe control of photosynthesis under differnt environmental conditions. - In: Biggins J (1987): Progress in photosynthesis research.
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
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Betts RA & Shugart HH (2005):

Dynamic ecosystem and earth system models.
In: Lovejoy TE & Hannah L (2005):
Climate change and biodiversity.
Yale University Press
New Haven & London
pp. 232-251



Fath BD & Patten BC (2000):

Ecosystem Theory: Network Environ Analysis.
In: Jorgensen SE & Müller F (2000):
Handbook of Ecosystem Theories and Management.
CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton
pp. 354-356



Hannah L, Lovejoy TE & Schneider SH (2005):

Chapter One: Biodiversity and climate change in context.
In: Lovejoy TE & Hannah L (2005):
Climate change and biodiversity.
Yale University Press
New Haven & London
pp. 3-14



Overpeck J, Cole J & Bartlein P (2005):

Chapter Seven: A "Paleoperspective" on Climate Variability and Change.
In: Lovejoy TE & Hannah L (2005):
Climate change and biodiversity.
Yale University Press
New Haven & London
pp. 91-108



Tilman D (1993):

Chapter 15: Community diversity and succession: The roles of competition, dispersal and habitat modification.
In: Schulze ED & Mooney HA (1993):
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function.
Ecological Studies 99.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin
pp. 327-346



Townsend Peterson A et al. (2005):

Modeling distributional shifts of individual species and biomes.
In: Lovejoy TE & Hannah L (2005):
Climate change and biodiversity.
Yale University Press
New Haven & London
pp. 211-228



Yu Q & Flerchinger GN (2008):

Chapter 7: Extending Simultaneous Heat and Water (SHAW) Model to Simulate Carbon Dioxide and Water Fluxes over Wheat Canopy.
In: Ahuja LR et al. (2008): Response of crops to limited water: Understanding and modeling water stress effects on plant growth processes.
Advances in Agricultural Systems Modeling Ser. 1.
Madison, WI, USA
pp. 436



Reports and Statements:



Djoghlaf A (2009):

The Executive Secretary of the converntion on Biological Diversity
Staement on the ocasion of
The fitth Intergovernmental Conference on Biodiversity in Europe
22 September 2009
Liege, Belgium
Oline at:
www.cbd.int/doc/speech/2009/sp-2009-09-22-belgium-en.pdf



European Environment Agency (2004):

Impacts of Europe's changing climate - an indicator-based assessment
EEA Report No 2/2004
EEA, Copenhagen
Online at:
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/climate_report_2_2004/impacts_of_europes_changing_climate.pdf



European Environment Agency (2008):

Impacts of Europe's changing climate - 2008 indicator-based assessment
EEA Report No 4/2008
EEA Copenhagen
Online at:
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eea_report_2008_4



Marx J, Höll N & Albinger G (1997):

Gesetzlicher Biotopschutz - Vortrag mit Folien
Landesanstalt fr Umweltschutz Baden-Württemberg (LfU)
Redaktion Landesanstalt fr Umweltschutz Baden-Württemberg, Abteilung 2 Ökologie, Boden- und Naturschutz, Fachdienst Naturschutz
Reihe Naturschutz-Praxis / Flchenschutz
Band-Nr. 1
Online at:
http://www.fachdokumente.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de/servlet/is/50078/?COMMAND=DisplayBericht&FIS=200&OBJECT=50078&MODE=METADATA



Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005):

Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Biodiversity Synthesis.
World Resources Institute, Washington, DC.
Online at:
http://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.354.aspx.pdf



Secr. Convention on Biological Diversity (2006):

Global Biodiversity Outlook 2.
Montreal, 81 + vii pages
Online at:
http://www.cbd.int/doc/gbo/gbo2/cbd-gbo2-en.pdf



Threat situation of plant groups in Germany

http://www.bfn.de/fileadmin/MDB/documents/030102_gruppe.pdf



UNEP (2007):

Global Environment Outllok: GEO 4
United Nations Environment Programme
Progrss Press Ltd.
Valetta, Malta
Online at:
http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4/report/GEO-4_Report_Full_en.pdf



Walter KS & Gillet HJ (1998):

1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Island Press
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