Humphries S W, Long S P
Department of Biology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
Comput Appl Biosci. 1995 Aug;11(4):361-71. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/11.4.361.
The ability to predict net carbon exchange and production of vegetation in response to predicted atmospheric and climate change is critical to assessing the potential impacts of these changes. Mathematical models provide an important tool in the study of whole plant, canopy and ecosystem responses to global environmental change. Because this requires prediction beyond experience, mechanistic rather than empirical models are needed. The uniformity and strong understanding of the photosynthetic process, which is the primary point of response of plant production to global atmospheric change, provides a basis for such an approach. Existing modelling systems have been developed primarily for expert modellers and have not been easily accessible to experimentalists, managers and students. Here we describe a modular modelling system operating within Windows to provide this access. WIMOVAC (Windows Intuitive Model of Vegetation response to Atmosphere and Climate Change) is designed to facilitate the modelling of various aspects of plant photosynthesis with particular emphasis on the effects of global climate change. WIMOVAC has been designed to run on IBM PC-compatible computers running Microsoft Windows. The package allows the sophisticated control of the simulation processes for photosynthesis through a standardized Windows user interface and provides automatically formatted results as either tabulated data or as a range of customizable graphs. WIMOVAC has been written in Microsoft Visual Basic, to facilitate the rapid development of user-friendly modules within the familiar Windows framework, while allowing a structured development. The highly interactive nature of controls adopted by WIMOVAC makes it suitable for research, management and educational purposes.
预测植被的净碳交换和产量对预测的大气和气候变化的响应能力，对于评估这些变化的潜在影响至关重要。数学模型为研究整株植物、冠层和生态系统对全球环境变化的响应提供了重要工具。由于这需要超越经验的预测，因此需要机理模型而非经验模型。光合作用过程的一致性以及对其的深入理解，这是植物生产对全球大气变化的主要响应点，为这种方法提供了基础。现有的建模系统主要是为专业建模人员开发的，实验人员、管理人员和学生难以使用。在此，我们描述一个在Windows系统下运行的模块化建模系统，以提供这种使用途径。WIMOVAC（Windows下植被对大气和气候变化响应的直观模型）旨在促进对植物光合作用各个方面的建模，特别强调全球气候变化的影响。WIMOVAC设计用于在运行Microsoft Windows的IBM PC兼容计算机上运行。该软件包通过标准化的Windows用户界面，允许对光合作用的模拟过程进行精细控制，并以表格数据或一系列可定制图表的形式提供自动格式化的结果。WIMOVAC是用Microsoft Visual Basic编写的，以便在熟悉的Windows框架内快速开发用户友好的模块，同时允许结构化开发。WIMOVAC采用的高度交互式控制性质使其适用于研究、管理和教育目的。
