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2020Seasonal variability of groundwater level effects on the growth of Carex cinerascens in lake wetlands
Alexandre Buttler, Pierre Rémi Mariotte, Luca Bragazza, Mathieu Raymond Santonja, Wenjuan Feng
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WILEY2019Resilience of riverbed vegetation to uprooting by flow
Riverine ecosystem biodiversity is largely maintained by ecogeomorphic processes including vegetation renewal via uprooting and recovery times to flow disturbances. Plant roots thus heavily contribute to engineering resilience to perturbation of such ecosy ...
2018An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization
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Lignin, a major component of lignocellulosic biomass, is crucial to plant growth and development but is a major impediment to efficient biomass utilization in various processes. Valorizing lignin is increasingly realized as being essential. However, rapid ...
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Dominique Bonvin, Colin Neil Jones, Timm Faulwasser, Harsh Ambarishkumar Shukla
In the context of static real-time optimization, the use of measurements allows dealing with uncertainty in the form of plant-model mismatch and disturbances. Modifier adaptation (MA) is a measurement-based scheme that uses first-order corrections to the m ...
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