The use of mass balances to test and improve the estimates of carbon fluxes in an ecosystem
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The use of mass balances to test and improve the estimates of carbon fluxes in an ecosystem
zbMATH Open document ID: 0622.92026
DOI: 10.1016/0025-5564(87)90098-8
author: J. P. G. van de Kamer
author: Olivier Klepper
published in: Mathematical Biosciences
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: A method is presented to analyse the estimates of carbon fluxes in an ecosystem by demanding that (1) the carbon budget of each ecological group should be balanced and that (2) every carbon flux in these balanced budgets should fall within the range of experimentally obtained values. It is shown that the problem of finding an optimal balanced solution is equivalent to the solution of an overdetermined linear system in the Chebyshev norm. A second problem is to find the minimum and maximum of every flux that may still yield balanced budgets, under the condition that the remaining fluxes are within their estimated ranges. Both problems may be solved by linear programming. The method is illustrated with a small prototype model.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90C90
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92-08
zbMATH DE Number: 4010289
zbMATH Keywords: estimates of carbon fluxes
zbMATH Keywords: optimal balanced solution
zbMATH Keywords: overdetermined linear system
zbMATH Keywords: Chebyshev norm
zbMATH Keywords: linear programming
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0025-5564(87)90098-8
OpenAlex ID: W2052959308
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4010289