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This meeting is the 4th edition in the FSPM series. The
first meeting was organized in Helsinki (Finland, Dec. 1996) and focused on the
modelling of the distribution of growth within an individual tree, and the
mathematical description and measurement of 3-Dimensional (3D) tree structure
(see the special issue of Silva Fennica, Vol 31, issue 3, 1997). The second
meeting, which kept on the same scientific track, was held in Clermont-Ferrand
(France, Oct. 1998). About 100 researchers from 24 countries attended this
meeting (see the special issue of Annals of Forest Science, Vol57, n°5/6).
The third meeting (see
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/gref/workshop/workshop.htm)
was held in Montreal (Canada, Sep 2001) and broadened the series to include
models of stand structure and function. This series of workshops greatly
contributed to the identification of a worldwide scientific community with
shared interests in plant architecture analysis and modelling (see
http://pais.cirad.fr).
The current
meeting will extend the series to all types of plants (woody and herbaceous)
and will focus on approaches that analyse or use plant 3-D
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